The wonderful instructions sent to cinemas with Close Encounters prints

We can’t take the credit for finding this, hence we’re embedding the Tweet where it came from. We thought you’d like to see it though.

When we read modern tales of directors writing to projectionists (that endangered species), it tends to be a story of Michael Bay urging people to get their settings right. But how about this instead? A sheet of guidance that was seemingly sent out with prints of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, for its original release back in 1977?

A thank you to Paul Bullock – @apaulbullock on Twitter – for alerting us to this. When the film gets its 40th anniversary re-release later this year, it’s a fair bet that similar instructions will not be provided…