National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Universal Pictures released E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in June 1982, directed by Steven Spielberg at the height of his commercial and creative powers. The film became the highest-grossing release of its era, displacing Star Wars, and remains a defining work of American cinema — a suburban fantasy built on genuine emotional restraint and practical effects that still hold up decades later.

This cell, titled Elliott, captures Greg and Elliott in a dimly lit interior, both in plaid shirts and oriented toward the camera across three frames that show subtle shifts in pose and framing. The repeated composition gives the strip an almost contact-sheet quality, preserving a quiet, watchful moment from one of the film's most recognizable young performances.