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Close Encounters of the Third Kind : Opening Sequence

In the Sonoran Desert, a group of researchers discover Flight 19, a group of World War Two fighter planes that went missing over the Bermuda Triangle.

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close-up, costume, crescendo, dolly in, dolly shot, establishing shot, eyeline match, high angle, location, long shot, low angle, medium long shot, medium shot, mise-en-scene, music, nondiegetic, over the shoulder shot, pan, shot/reverse shot, sound effects, superimposed titles

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LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, White: White American

"Opening Sequence" in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips Productions, 1977, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3391

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