Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/015

Cinefex Associate Editor Joe Fordham joins us to discuss the making of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial, we try to figure out how E.T.’s innards worked, and discuss Spielberg’s unproduced Night Skies.

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Features

E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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Guests

Joe Fordham, Associate Editor, Cinefex

Music

All tracks by Digital Droo

Research Materials

Cinefex 10 — January 1983, also available in the Cinefex iPad app
Revisiting Cinefex (11): ET and Robert Swarthe by Graham Edwards
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial from Concept to Classic

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See http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/015 for complete show notes.

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