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Where was Close Encounters of the Third Kind filmed?

1977 film directed by Steven Spielberg

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) was filmed in Mobile — 1 recorded filming location in the United States. It is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.

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Filming locations

Also per Wikipedia's Filming section

Wikipedia’s Filming section names 12 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Alabama, California, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

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Frequently asked questions

How many filming locations does Close Encounters of the Third Kind have?

1 place recorded on Wikidata, and 12 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across the United States.

Which other productions were filmed at the same places?

The Final Destination (2009), Executive Decision (1996), Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988), Scrubs (2001–2010) and 8 more, each listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.