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Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 18, 1947. He was also one the oldest of four children. His father, Arnold was an electrical engineer, and his mother Leah, had been a concert pianist. One film that Spielberg remembered in his youth was The Greatest Show on Earth, which was a spectacular 1952 eye-catching movie directed by Cecil B. De Mille. Shortly after watching the film Spielberg himself began to shoot small recordings of camping trips and narrative movies. He grew increasingly ambitious and began to film and shoot more small movies which one of them he called “Firelight”, a movie with a complex plot that involved astronomers, weird noises, strange lights, and the encounter with some aliens. Throughout Spielbergs
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