Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1977. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1977 film. Cropping annotations in manuscript pencil and ink, and two pieces of masking tape, on the verso.

Based on Spielberg's novel of the same name, about Roy Neary (Dreyfuss), who is one of several people who witness UFOs at night, and subsequently he begins to have visions of a mysterious place. Government agents also have similar encounters, only they discover physical evidence of extraterrestrials. Roy and the agents join together and are led to a place (not unlike the place in Roy's visions) where they have a close encounter of the third kind: contact. Winner of an Academy Award (Best Cinematography, 1978), and Spielberg's third feature as director (following "Jaws," 1975, and "The Sugarland Express," 1974.)

Set in Muncie, Indiana, shot on location in Alabama and India.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

National Film Registry.

[Book #133556]