Research- Poltergeist

       The horror movie Poltergeist was filmed in 1982 with a budget of $10.7 million dollars.  Its gross income from the box office was about $76.6 million dollars. This film was nominated 3 times in 1983 at the Academy Awards for Best Effects/Visual Effects, Best Effects/Sound Effects Editing, and for Best Music Original Score. It won 1 award in 1983 at the BAFTA Awards for Best Special Visual Effects.

       The beginning of the film has a black background and has the names of the contributors of the film in a retro font, fading in and out. The names shown are the producers companies sponsoring this film, and then the name of the film. After that, an image of an old TV screen sows the image of an American monument or the fallen soldiers of war. The national anthem of America is played in the background until the TV program ends and all there is left is static. The camera zooms out of the TV, while remaining stationary, to show a man laying on a couch and this man's room being filthy. His Golden Retriever trots into the shot and steals his food tat was on the ground and walks away to the stairs. The camera remains stationary, in one spot, but pans and moves the camera angles up and down, following the movements of the dog. The dog goes upstairs, and the first 2 minutes of the film ends.