Great news for fans of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind...........

[bluzman61]

The movie is now free on YouTube with no ads. It's also the special director's cut, clocking in at over two hours fifteen minutes!

 

[toobfreak]

The movie is now free on YouTube with no ads. It's also the special director's cut, clocking in at over two hours fifteen minutes!

It is also available over at my house, on an 80 inch screen in 4KHD, no ads, no commercials. But it won't be free. You'll need to bring a case of cold dark imported lager with you.

 

[1srelluc]

I rewatched it (director's cut) on Hitz last week.

I love the opening scene.....FF to 2:31.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Melinda Dillon passed a couple of years ago.
She was in several memorable movies, like Christmas Story and Bound for Glory.

 

[Crepitus]

It is also available over at my house, on an 80 inch screen in 4KHD, no ads, no commercials. But it won't be free. You'll need to bring a case of cold dark imported lager with you.

Dark imports are ususally served at room temperature.

 

[toobfreak]

I love the opening scene.....FF to 2:31.

That reminds me of the first time I saw it--- Close Encounters had just come out and the story on the street was how you just had to go see it, that it was this amazing, far out sci-fi movie. It was 1977 or whatever year it was and a few friends and I went to the theater to see it, but we were running a few minutes late and didn't actually get into the theater until after it had started!

As we entered the film room in the dark and were heading down the aisle looking for seats, it was the dust storm scene and I kept glancing at the screen as we headed down the aisle trying to figure out what the hell was going on thinking to myself: "Gee, this doesn't look like so hot a sci-fi movie! A bunch of guys in a dust storm in the desert?!"

Of course, it turns out I was way wrong.

 

[1srelluc]

That reminds me of the first time I saw it--- Close Encounters had just come out and the story on the street was how you just had to go see it, that it was this amazing, far out sci-fi movie. It was 1977 or whatever year it was and a few friends and I went to the theater to see it, but we were running a few minutes late and didn't actually get into the theater until after it had started!

As we entered the film room in the dark and were heading down the aisle looking for seats, it was the dust storm scene and I kept glancing at the screen as we headed down the aisle trying to figure out what the hell was going on thinking to myself: "Gee, this doesn't look like so hot a sci-fi movie! A bunch of guys in a dust storm in the desert?!"

Of course, it turns out I was way wrong.

They screwed up just a tad. When they slid back the canopy on the TBY there was a set of modern headphones (likely just earmuffs) inside.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

We rewatched this movie a few months ago.
I had forgotten how good it was.

 

[toobfreak]

They screwed up just a tad. When they slid back the canopy on the TBY there was a set of modern headphones (likely just earmuffs) inside.

Well, those old headphones, the soft cups around the ears to keep extraneous sound out, in the early days they tended to disintegrate and fall apart with old age, so that is probably why they subbed those other ones which looked better for the screen.

 

[1srelluc]

Well, those old headphones, the soft cups around the ears to keep extraneous sound out, in the early days they tended to disintegrate and fall apart with old age, so that is probably why they subbed those other ones which looked better for the screen.

Oddly enough I bought a set of WW-2 Navy headphones that was in great shape but they had been stored in a cedar chest with other militaria since the 50s.

The one on the TBY looked like a set of shooting muffs.

 

[Stryder50]

I rewatched it (director's cut) on Hitz last week.

I love the opening scene.....FF to 2:31.

The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM<a href="Grumman TBF Avenger - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a> for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American World War II-era torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps and also eventually used by several air and naval aviation services around the world.
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Grumman TBF Avenger - Wikipedia

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Grumman TBF Avenger (1942)

The Grumman TBF Avenger became in 1942 the main carrier borne torpedo bomber of the USN, participating in all combats until the end of WW2, and making a long career postwar as a modernized ASW patrol plane

naval-encyclopedia.com

The find five TBF/TBMs and claim these are the five from the flight that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in late 1945.

Flight 19 - Wikipedia​

Found Wreckage May Shed Light on Missing 1945 Aircraft Patrol​

 

[toobfreak]

Oddly enough I bought a set of WW-2 Navy headphones that was in great shape but they had been stored in a cedar chest with other militaria since the 50s.

I guess it depends on which models you got. Early headphones were made using a lot of leather (cowhide) which held up pretty well eventually getting dry rot and cracking, while later ones using early synthetic vinyl products often turned to power in the sun and fell apart. Add to that some acoustic foams (high transparency to audio frequencies) tend to have reduced life spans anyway.