Steven Spielberg

during the dawn of man, that there was some technique being used to create those vivid backdrops.

Right, exactly.

So when I made Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I got the same front projection.

Doug Trumbull brought that front projection material into the studio.

And there's a couple scenes when I have my actors against the front projection material, and Doug Trumbull and Richard Yuricich and his whole special effects group had to generate the effects first

and then project the effects.

It was mainly lightning in clouds.

And that was done in the cloud tank on Close Encounters.

We had a cloud tank and it made very realistic clouds.

And we put lights behind, inside the water, behind the actual paint that was being

jetted with great force into the water, which creates cumulus clouds.

And we had lights behind it.

And when he photographed that in 65 millimeter, we had a 65 millimeter or 70 millimeter projection onto our front projection material.

And it made it look like we're really outside during a distant electrical storm.

I think Sean's going to explode.

I think Sean just passed out.

I learned so much from Doug.

I mean, Doug Trumbull taught me so much about special effects, which, of course, he and Stanley had devised.

Got the beach.

Trombone shot.