Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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General information
Full release title
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Category
Number within category
44
Release company
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc.
Catalog number
SBR 26501
Released
2008
Region
B
Number of media
2
Number of sides
1 + 1
Content year
1977, 1980, 1997
Video
1080/24p
Aspect ratio
2.35:1
Anamorphic
No
Audio
- English (DTS 5.1 HD Master Audio)
- English (Dolby TrueHD 5.1)
Subtitles
- English
- English for the hearing impaired
- Dutch
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Finnish
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Islandic
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Romanian
- Slovene
- Swedish
- Turkish
Contents
- Disc 1
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Original Version) (2:14′44″)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Special Edition) (2:12′29″)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director's Cut) (2:17′14″)
- Extras
- View From Above
- Disc 2
- Encounters
- Steven Spielberg: 30 Years of Close Encounters (21′22″)
- The Making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1:41′48″)
- Watch the Skies (5′54″)
- Deleted Scenes
- In the Desert (0′49″)
- Roy on the Job (4′04″)
- Roy gets Directions (1′20″)
- At the Airport (4′38″)
- At the Police Station (1′51″)
- At the Barbeque (1′59″)
- English Lessons (1′31″)
- On the Roof (0′55″)
- At the Gas Station (2′13″)
- Explorations
- Storyboard Comparison
- Roy's First Encounter (4′52″)
- Crescendo Summit 1 (2′16″)
- Crescendo Summit 2 (3′13″)
- Barry's Kidnapping (5′52″)
- Landing Site (6′23″)
- Storyboard Galleries
- End Sequence 1
- End Sequence 2
- Location Scouting Pictures
- Mothership Drawings by Ralph McQuarrie
- Behind the Scenes
- The Opening
- The Power Plant
- At Home with the Neary Family
- Roy's Close Encounter at the Railway
- Roy at the Police Station
- At Barry and Jillian's
- Crescendo Summit
- Lacombe
- Evacuation
- Roy and Jillian on the Road
- Devils Tower
- The Climb
- "Who Are You People?"
- The Landing Site
- The Aliens
- Puck
- Production Team
- Vilmos Zsigmond: Director of Photography
- Joe Alves: Production Designer
- Douglas Trumbull: Special Photographic Effects Supervisor
- Michael Kahn: Editor
- John Williams: Composer
- Portrait Gallery
- Steven Spielberg: Director/Screenwriter
- Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary
- Teri Garr as Ronnie Neary
- Melinda Dillon as Jillian Guiler
- Marketing: Original Theatrical Release
- Poster Concepts
- The Release
- Trading Cards
- French Lobby Cards (Original Theatrical Release)
- Special Edition
- Filming the Special Edition
- French Lobby Cards (Special Edition Release)
- Storyboard Comparison
- Original Trailers
- Original Version (6′01″)
- Special Edition (1′57″)
- The Ultimate Edition (1′34″)
- Encounters