E.T. (1982) The Extra-Terrestrial - FILM LOCATION DOCUMENTARY 

That's when real movies stole your imagination, probably the best movie I ever saw.. The 80's were the best times of my life for sure.

I don't know if you'll agree with me but it seems like movies are not made this well anymore, the 80's and the early 90's were the best of times, wish I could go back to when this was filmed

The fact that the centipede was still at the playground after nearly 40 years made my heart smile.

one thing i notice is there was much less vegetation and clutter in 1982...today the neighborhood looks much more claustrophobic and closed in. i like the 1982 look better...its more wide open and majestic

The Station Fire came right down to ET's house. The whole mountain behind it burned. Sky Crane helicopters sucked water out of the reservoir at the end of Haines Canyon and flew for days in and out to drop water on hot spots. Thanks to the fire crews many homes were saved. Camel's Back is the mountain behind ET's house and we used to hike up there as kids in the 1960's. The house is one of the highest ones in the 7 Hills development. The ET video tape played several hundred times in our TV room when my boy was small. I took him there to stand in ET's driveway and took his picture. He's 30 now. Time flies. Good location documentary, thanks Daniel.

Good job, funny the caterpillar is still there :-) I think they decided not to get rid of it for the people who like to see E.T. Locations, and this one is so obviously one of them :-)

No wonder my neighbor looked so familiar. I kept saying to myself, I know this neighborhood but where have I seen it before. You forgot one location. The forest, the bald spot.

This film literally changed my life as a child. It’s still my favorite film of all time. Times were so rough for us as kids...this film was my first huge escape...our school took us to see it...and I was STUNNED. I saw it at a pivotal moment in my childhood...same age as Elliott was...and I longed for that life. I had no idea that kids were free to run and play like that and have a loving relationship with parents. It was so foreign to me. That home and life...they looked so rich to me. A room with things in it?? Pictures on the walls...toys laying about? It was so enchanting. And I dreamed of having something amazing like that happen to me...something important and beautiful. Films can really touch you when you’re very young.

wow this must have taken a ton of time to research and find these locations...awesome video! very nicely done!

@pantherandme Actually, several persons asked while filming, what I was doing? They did not know and were highly astonished, when I told them that E.T was filmed there!

Poltergeist was also filmed around that area

My house is in front of the hill of where it happened-

@steveothehulk I am planning to do more movies, i am going to inform you when they are online,ok.

Thanx, yes you are right it took some preparation work, before filming. I actually used google earth a lot to find the location. The outside scene wre mainly filmed in Porter Ranch in L.A. Although the E.T. house stands 15 miles away from this area. Please watch also my new film location docu of BLOW UP! Thanx!

Even Spielberg doesn't make movies this good anymore.

man, i want to go back.

i live down the street in Tujunga. can you please tell me where the scene is starting at 1:10? is that in tujunga and how do i access that trail? thanks

Very cool, why the fuck does everything look cooler in the 80's? 2000's are boring

thanks for posting this vid man, brought back many childhood memories for me. keep up the good filming sites

looks better living in the 80s. fresh. would love to live there back then. the sky is so beautiful.

Amazing! You did a great job setting this up. Very cool....

I wonder how many times E.T's house owners got harrassed by fans just to take a look inside the house.

This was AWESOME! Thank you so much for your time and accuracy! It's so neat to be able to "go back" to a time when there were actual meaningful NON ANIMATED childhood movies. From the mouth of Spielberg himself "The last 20 minutes of E.T. was cinematic History!"

I HAVE BEEN TO MOST OF THE LOCATIONS, DON'T KNOW SOME OS THEM, LIKE THE CHASE SCENE IN THE VAN WHERE THE PLASTIC BREAKS, THE DIRT TRAIL, IS IT BY THAT CHAIN LINK FENCE TOO?? NOW THERE IS A SOLID FENCE THERE

It would be incredible if I could give the coordinates to see it from google maps great job by the way

@MegaTondog I have heard that the E.T. house was available for 630`000 Dollar. But the E.T. house is actually more than 15 miles away from the BMX chase streets (village). Spielberg wanted to have a spectacular background for the E.T.house and it obviously worked great.

The filming locations and the neighborhood has changed so much since 1982.

A ride back to childhood....thanks for the video.

Thanx for your comment! It was mainly filmed Northridge and Tujunga in L.A.

Thanks for this..such a big fan of ET....it brings so much memories in the 80s.

Also, quick question - When they start flying on the bikes, what street is it that they're taking off from? Was it San Fernando Mission??

Mega Like! thanks! a big huge from Perú!

Great work!But 2:09 Mmm.. I cant help but for me this arent the same villages. I cannot recognize any similarities. Where is the distinctive highway for Example? 4:51 The old playground-framework seems to be the same yet! : -)

Why are things from the 80s still the same now? In the UK everything has changed since to 80s it's a shame

I wonder if a lot of people show up to these people's home cause of the movie and do people get permission to be on these people properties filming and what not

Nice job!

Well done , a good watch, wish they would make films with good stories again without all the computer generated effects of today.

Considering i rate E.T as my alltime favourite childhood movie, i greatly enjoyed his video by you! Also, i live in Sweden, so i havent got the opportunity to watch the real filmlocations in real life, but ive always wondered how it looks in this city today. So thanks for doing this :) (also, im born 1985, so i watched this movie when it was as most popular too.) Cheers,Peter from Sweden.

Cool Video, but the only thing is it would be nice if you would put addresses of the locations, esp for people that live in the Northridge area....For example the park with the Caterpillar that's still there..Where is it???????? I think that's the park where Reseda Bl ends in Porter Ranch????? I am not sure though...As well as all other locations....

Thanx for your comment!No, it was the crossroad White Oak Ave/Tulsa street, Please watch also my new film location docu BLOW UP (1966)!

Just got done watching E.T. at the Egyptian Theater in Coos Bay, Oregon. Thanks for showing us where it was all filmed :~)

Watching this makes me want to watch the movie again!

Niceeeee!!!!!! Thank you for bringing Et back!!!!!!

Does the sky there still look like that today with the red moon?

That was awesome 👍 ❤️

wow, this is so interesting! thanks for sharing. :)

Did the owners not care if you walked up on their property for the ET house? I love the street at 6:50... where is it? And the playground with the caterpillar?

@tkramer62283 Thanx for your comment! Yes you are right, the camera should have stood 40-50 meters further to the right. The problem was, that there was a high fence (You actually see a picture at the end) and a sign that it is forbidden to enter that plattform. Also the scene where the kids fly over the village was film on that plattform.

ThIs is awesome - excellent work and thanks for sharing with us. I always wondered if they finished of the construction on the houses - now I know!

Nice video! It must have been a fairly new neighborhood development at the time...it's seems to be a much greener area nowadays.

Dear Daniel Thank you so much for sharing this great material. This is great stuff and am impressed about how you beautifully matched those original scenes with the ones you shot. Congrats! I was 7 when I first saw this movie and it had changed my life forever. I can't wait to get back to the States and do exactly what you did. Thank you so muck for inspire us again and remind us of this master piece. Cheers from Brazil. Gustavo

Just before take-off in the bike chase, how do you know if they were riding north on White Oak Avenue? Different site have conflicting reports on this matter.

Excellent job Daniel!! Thank you for putting this together. Your filming mirrors the movie.. How did you know where to go for the locations? I'm watching E. T. for the very first time and looking up filming locations at the same time. Couldn't have done this 38 years ago!!

LOVED this :) My neighborhood

Amazing vídeo! Great job!

Thats one long driveway

Very cool! Would love to see something like this for Poltergeist as well. I wonder if that was filmed nearby too.

sorry to say this but the location where you look over the ridge and only see keys lower half is in the wrong place... its more east on a small sand platform accesible from reseda blvd... enter the horse trail and after about 30 feet there is a steep climb to the platform... the houses match up there exept for one, that one was replaced for a new home...

U should’ve put the actual locations

Wow... I'm mindblown that you were able to do that! Very nice stuff!

Nice. quick question about their house in the movie. Obviously someone lives there now, so did you just walk on their property and take pictures without asking?? If you talked to them are they used to people checking out their house cuz of the movie?

love this

Good work, Daniel ! You successfully caught the atmosphere of the movie. Btw, don't miss Hervé Attia's mega impressive E.T. location video!

So many houses back then at 2:19

This is awesome, thank you.

GREAT GREAT THAT MAKES ME REMEMBER MY CHILDHOOD STEVEN SPEILBERG IS REALLY GENIUS

someone lives at E.T. house now

awesome work man. thank you for taking the time to do it I really enjoyed it

thank you. Great video. brings back memories.

What town was the forest scenes filmed at?

You sure know how to shoot these location vids. Amazing work -and research!

So sad that ET's not around today

Great video! This is the best "movie location" video on YT! Thanks for sharing!

@LoveTheNostalgia thx a lot, my friend

Congrats from Brazil! I was 14 in january - 1983, when the movie apear in the theaters. Great job...nostalgic remenices.

Not too many changes in 30 years. Good documentary, thanx !

And you are a sin tu sufrimos

cool video.bring back memories

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh estupendo video de ET Saludos y ************* Carmen

I did the same thing too, still don't know some locations

this is cool, Im amazed at how many places you were able to pinpoint. classic movie!

great video man

great video, thanks

Awesome, 1982, I was 6 yold at this time...Remember to see this movie around 10-11 yold I think LOL and now this summer I bring my kids to see that...Thanks

Do one now in 2017

im diggin this film for sure! cnt wait for the next one. this is very unique

Sooooooooooooooo much better than the OTHER video that only shows about 10% of the filming locations! Thansk!!

Thatssweet man, excellent work on that, looks so diffrent..

Wonderful video. Thanks for bringing me back to my childhood-even if only for a few minutes...

It wasn't ET that stole our imaginations, it was Steven Spielberg and his amazing imagination! Greatest Film Producer on record to date!

awesome video..

what city was it?

AMAZING THANKS WELL DONE

I am Elliot!

cool i love this sort of stuff many times iv tried to find certain movie locations on google earth but with no coordinates its very hard this is great awesomely done any more vids like this?? or a specific web site dedicated to this sort of stuff?

et is a jedi

Fairly enjoyed this, very well put together man :)

Wow! This was a great walk down memory lane. This was a huge movie for me when I was a kid. I spent the summer in Tuscan AZ the summer it came out. I had to break away from playing with a kid neighbor's AT-AT to go see it. Thanks for the invite. TexasKev

Isn't that technically Porter Ranch? Looks more north than Northridge

@VidAtlantic cheers. I think it was filmed in the same area when I am not mistaken. Spielberg produced poltergeist and it was shot at the same time as E.T.