Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Spielberg Special Edition CED Selectavision

This listing is for Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Spielberg Special Edition CED Selectavision Video Disc Movie Room Art.

This is a CED. I do NOT have a player so I cannot test how it plays. I sell as-is and for Wall Art for your movie room. This edition is 2 pieces (Part 1 & 2).

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film, written and directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and Cary Guffey. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO).

Close Encounters was a long-cherished project for Spielberg. In late 1973, he developed a deal with Columbia Pictures for a science fiction film. Though Spielberg received sole credit for the script, he was assisted by Paul Schrader, John Hill, David Giler, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, and Jerry Belson, all of whom contributed to the screenplay in varying degrees. The title is derived from UFO-ologist J. Allen Hynek's classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the third kind denotes human observations of aliens or "animate beings." Douglas Trumbull served as the visual effects supervisor, while Carlo Rambaldi designed the aliens.

Made on a production budget of $18 million, Close Encounters was released in November 1977 to critical and financial success, eventually grossing over $337,700,000 worldwide.

A Special Edition of the film, featuring additional scenes, was issued in 1980. A third cut of the film was released to home video and laserdisc in 1998 (and later DVD and Blu-ray). The film received numerous awards and nominations at the 50th Academy Awards, 32nd British Academy Film Awards, the 35th Golden Globe Awards, the Saturn Awards and has been widely acclaimed by the American Film Institute. In December 2007, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

This is a CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc). NOT a laserdisc, dvd, or any other media format. It requires a CED player to watch. Please be sure that your player and stylus are in perfect working order before assuming that the disc is faulty. Also, be aware that the technology behind the CED results in occasional jumps or skips in playback. Repeating playback more than once tends to help this problem, but if you are a collector of CEDs, you already know this. I will do everything possible to make sure you receive a disc that is enjoyable to watch. Due to the age of these, the caddies may be soiled, have rips or torn spots, have stickers or writing on them, bubbling on artwork, and have fading. For this reason, they are sold as is.

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