In 1964, a 17-year-old named Steven Spielberg made a movie called Firelight. Produced for $500 and filled with actors from Spielberg’s high school production of Guys and Dolls, Firelight follows several scientists as they explore mysterious colored lights in the sky that just might be aliens. Elements of Firelight would eventually start to appear in Spielberg’s professional work, most notably in 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
