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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