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Close Encounters of the Third Kind premieres

Large lit studio model of the film's mother ship spacecraft on display in a museum
The mother ship model built for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, now at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind had its premiere in New York. Its title uses a term coined by Northwestern University astronomer J. Allen Hynek, who was credited as a technical adviser. The Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry in 2007.

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  1. OfficialReading the Film Registry: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)Library of Congress, Now See Hear! blog / 2018-12-01
  2. PressClose Encounters of the Third Kind at 40: The Movie That Proved 'Spielberg's Reputation Is No Accident'TIME / 2017-11-15
  3. PressHow a Controversial Chicago Astronomer Influenced 'Close Encounters'WTTW (Chicago PBS) / 2017-07-17

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