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Release Date:
August 28, 2018
Original Title:
Calling All Earthlings
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Carpe Stella Productions
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 74
Calling All Earthlings explores a mid-century UFO cult led by one-time Howard Hughes confidante, George Van Tassel. Van Tassel claimed to have combined alien guidance with the writings of inventor/physicist Nikola Tesla, and other controversial science, to build an electromagnetic time machine he dubbed “The Integratron.” Was he insane? Or could the dome really break through the boundaries of space, time, and energy? FBI agents worked against Van Tassel and the alternative community that formed out of his work. Would he finish the Integratron before the government finished him?
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Associate Producer:
Paul Rabin
Cinematography:
Tony Molina
Gregory J. Wilson
Co-Producer:
Danny Kuchuck
Iain Kennedy
Director:
Jonathan Berman
Editor:
Iain Kennedy
Executive Producer:
Alan Steinfeld
Producer:
Jonathan Berman
Visual Effects:
Craig Bassuk
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