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Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977 | Story and Screenshots


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After the notes of the ship slowly die out, a large cargo door in the belly of the ship slides open - a blinding, brilliant white light emanates from within. The panel slides down and becomes a ramp. Again, there is the tuned music conversation, accompained by coloured lights. The music moves faster and faster until it dies out. Everybody is watching, breathless.


From inside the ship and the ramp, several people (and a dog) who had previously disappeared, walk out of the UFO. They are all healthy and calm. Uniformed figures emerge - the US Navy pilots missing for decades: Frank Taylor, Lieutenant J.G., United States Naval Reserve, 064199. Harry Ward Craig, Captain United States Navy, 043431. Matthew McMichael, Lieutenant, United States Naval Reserve, 0909411. As the long-missing military men step off the ramp, their names are checked off against lists of missing.


Team Member: Records indicate Harry Ward Craig disappeared off Chicken Shoals, Flight 19.

Scientist: Einstein was right.

Team Leader: Einstein was probably one of them.

Many other soldiers, as well as ordinary folks, are released from onboard the ship.


Jillian's small son, Barry, also appears on the ramp - he breaks into a run into his mother.


Jillian leaves her hiding place and goes running to him, hugging and kissing her son while crying tender tears.

Barry: I went into the air and I saw our house.

Jillian: I saw you going up in the air. Did you see me running after you?


Lacombe: Monsieur Neary, what do you want?

Roy: I just want to know that it's really happening.

Lacombe [turns to Roy]: I envy you.


The ramp opens up a second time and a small, frail, undeveloped, spindly, pale alien with big eyes gracefully debarks - the brilliantly over-exposed scenes cause the aliens to appear blurry. The vulnerable being with superior intelligence, a messianic figure of sorts, gestures with a message of love and peace to investigating scientists via sign language - he raises both his arms in a good-will gesture.


Other small, childlike humanoid aliens, obviously harmless, emerge and stand on Earth's soil to face the humans.


They have got no hair, they are naked, and they are as tall as a child. Having been cleared by Lacombe and Laughlin of official formalities, Roy is invited to join the red-uniformed team of "pilgrims" for a space journey in the alien ship.

Scientist: Mr. Neary, I'm told we can count on your complete cooperation. What type of blood do you have?

Roy: I don't have the slightest idea.

Scientist: What's your birth date?

Roy: December 4th, 1944.

Scientist: Have you been inoculated against smallpox, diphtheria? Is there any liver disease in your family?


Roy Neary is last in the line of red-uniformed space travelers. One of the little aliens senses Roy's oneness with them, draws him out of the line and takes his hand. After being surrounded and 'adopted' by the beings, Roy is led up to the ramp.


He briefly pauses and turns back at Earth with a look of calm on his face. Lacombe nods assurance and approval. Roy disappears into the brilliance of the Mother Ship.


One extra-terrestrial alien remains. The French UFO expert Lacombe gestures to the alien with the Zoltan Kodaly hand signals for the five-tone sequence.


The alien responds, pleasingly, to the hand-to-hand communication with a repetition of the same signals.


The humans flash a smile to the alien as they look with a sense of wonder. The extraterrestrial turns.


After entering the giant spacecraft, the massive object lifts and gracefully heads starward.

Priest: May the Lord be praised at all times. May God help us and grant us a happy journey. Show us Your ways. And lead us along Your paths. God has given you His angels charge over you. Grant these pilgrims, we pray, a happy journey......and peaceful days, so that with Your holy angel as a guide......they may safely reach their destination....

Barry [looking up at the space ship flying away]: Bye.


The spacecraft and their occupants fly away from planet Earth into the million-starred celestial copola.



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