E.T The Extra Terrestrial HD ( filming location video ) Steven Spielberg
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ET house is located in Tujunga CA. The other locations are in Porter Ranch, CA.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace and Peter Coyote. It tells the story of Elliott (played by Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends a friendly alien, dubbed “E.T.”, who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help the alien return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.
The concept for E.T. was based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents’ divorce. In 1980, Spielberg met Mathison and developed a new story from the stalled science fiction/horror film project Night Skies. The film was shot from September to December 1981 in California on a budget of US$10.5 million. Unlike most motion pictures, the film was shot in roughly chronological order, to facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young cast.
Released by Universal Studios, E.T. was a blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the most financially successful film released to that point. Critics acclaimed it as a timeless story of friendship, and it ranks as the best science fiction film ever made in a Rotten Tomatoes survey. The alien became the subject of analogies for Jesus. The film was rereleased in 1985, and then again in 2002 with altered special effects and additional scenes. Spielberg believes E.T. epitomizes his work.
E.T. began shooting in September 1981. The project was filmed under the cover name A Boy’s Life, as Spielberg did not want anyone to discover and plagiarize the plot. The actors had to read the script behind closed doors, and everyone on set had to wear an ID card. The shoot began with two days at a high school in Culver City, and the crew spent the next 11 days moving between locations at Northridge and Tujunga. The house scenes were shot in Lonzo Street. The next 42 days were spent at Laird International Studios in Culver City, for the interiors of Elliott’s home. The crew shot at a redwood forest near Crescent City for the last six days of production. Spielberg shot the film in roughly chronological order to achieve convincingly emotional performances from his cast. In the scene in which Michael first encounters the alien, the creature’s appearance caused MacNaughton to jump back and knock down the shelves behind him. The chronological shoot gave the young actors an emotional experience as they bonded with E.T., making the hospital sequences more moving. Spielberg ensured the puppeteers kept away from the set to maintain the illusion of a real alien. For the first time in his career, he did not storyboard most of the film, in order to facilitate spontaneity in the performances.The film was shot so adults, except for Dee Wallace, are never seen from the waist up in the first half of the film, as a tribute to the cartoons of Tex Avery. The shoot was completed in 61 days, four days ahead of schedule.
Longtime Spielberg collaborator John Williams composed the musical score for E.T. Williams described his challenge as creating a score that would generate sympathy for such an odd-looking creature. As with their previous collaborations, Spielberg liked every theme Williams composed and had it included. Spielberg loved the music for the final chase so much that he edited the sequence to suit it.
In July 1982, during the film’s first theatrical run, Spielberg and Mathison wrote a treatment for a sequel to be titled E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears. It would have seen Elliott and his friends kidnapped by evil aliens and follow their attempts to contact E.T. for help. Spielberg decided against pursuing the sequel, feeling it “would do nothing but rob the original of its virginity”
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Wow, the time and …
Wow, the time and effort you put into this. You’re obviously committed to filmmaking. GREAT WORK!!!
7121 Lonzo Street, …
7121 Lonzo Street, Tujunga, Los Angeles, California, USA
is the address of the house
wooooow ! you do a …
wooooow ! you do a GREAT JOB !!!! i looooove this movie too !!
omg i wanna go …
omg i wanna go there!! haha, great video:D
What a fantastic …
What a fantastic video. Many thanks for your hard work.
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exelente video
zta ez una de mis peliculaz favoritaz (aunk aun no nacia el dia que se estreno hasta varios anos despues pero la conoci graciaz a k mis papas tenian el vhs)y fue genial ver las locaciones actules
muy buen video(exelente)
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Amazing!!! You …
Amazing!!! You really LOVE this movie! Me too! Your video made me cry. I miss being a kid in the 80s. And I long to meet our celestial kin.
Truly amazing! …
It must have been awesome to be on these locations, such beautiful places! I allways wanted to live in that neighbourhood 
And maybe I will one day, who knows hehe! Cheers! // Mike
Truly amazing! Thank you for this video Hervé!
where have these …
where have these types of movies gone?
uplifting, heartwarming, imaginative, full of hope, wonderful to watch…
we haven’t seen this caliber of cinema in a very long time…
it is a market waiting to be opened up again…
what program was …
what program was used to make this video?
This will always be …
This will always be a cherished film of my youth. Do you know the address to the E.T. house in Tujunga CA?
Brilliant job 10/10 …
Brilliant job 10/10
Can’t believe the caterpilla and same swings are still there going on 30 years later
well done, top job
well done, top job
GREAT VID. Thanks …
GREAT VID. Thanks for taking the time to do this!!!!!!
wow…now this is …
wow…now this is cool!
…so much changed…but you can still see where it is…I like it…;)
i am e.t
i am e.t
them actors are all …
them actors are all grown up now
This is really cool …
This is really cool ive been to the house and allot has changed and thanks for this cause now i can see all the other places verry cool love your videos!
I was just out …
I was just out there last week. The back alley where Michael eludes the Authorities while enroute to retrieve the ailing E.T. is now gone. It has been entirely removed. The entire road where it previously was located has been redone into a new gated community; nothing is left of the back alley.
This is wonderful! …
This is wonderful! You did a fantastic job with this! Thank you so much!
Thank you for this …
Thank you for this great video!
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E.T. will always be …
E.T. will always be one of my favorite movies. I always wandered what part of California that movie was filmed in. I thought Elliot had the coolest room when i was a kid because of allof the neat stuff he had. Thanks for the great photography of the before and after house construction and the park where the school kids see E.T. for the first time. Awesome video!
This is great. …
This is great. Like you, I have always been fascinated by the locations used in E.T. Back in the mid to late 90s I took my own tour of them. I saw the Eliot house, the park in Porter Ranch and the tree-lined street where the bikes take off. But you have me beat by a mile. I need to go check all those other places out.