Los Angeles: Budget: $400. A 140 minute science fiction film, his first “independently directed movie.” Shown at the local movie theater, it will make a $100 profit for Spielberg. Firelight will later inspire Close Encounters.
Born December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati Ohio. Early childhood in Phoenix, Arizona. After his parents divorced, he moves to Saratoga, California with his dad after his junior year in high school. His mom and three sisters stayed in Cincinnati. Spielberg’s main time with them until adulthood would be annual Passover Seders, back in Arizona.