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Memory: The Origins of Alien

I don't think anybody hadany idea that it would become a kind of film classic

I don't think anybody had
any idea that it would become a kind of film classic

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I don't think anybody had any idea that it would
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become a kind of film classic.
Duration
5 seconds
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31
Timestamp in Movie
01:17:13
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history
Production
Screen Media Films,Legion M,Dogwoof

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Movie Summary

An in-depth voyage into the sci-fi film "Alien" with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time came to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.
Ian Nathan: Roger dicken brought the chestburster to the set - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
Ian Nathan: Roger dicken brought the chestburster to the set
All the crew was sort of donning these rain jackets because they - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
All the crew was sort of donning these rain jackets because ...
Roger Christian: In the morning, Ridley said, let's put - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
Roger Christian: In the morning, Ridley said, let's put
So I sent the buyer down to the abattoir - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:09
So I sent the buyer down to the abattoir
And they put it in formaldehyde for you, but it was worse. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
And they put it in formaldehyde for you, but it was worse.
We were sticking it all around underneath. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
We were sticking it all around underneath.
Veronica Cartwright: We're all up in our dressing rooms - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
Veronica Cartwright: We're all up in our dressing rooms
Harry Dean Stanton is sitting in the hall - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
Harry Dean Stanton is sitting in the hall
We kept wondering, what the... what was going on? - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
We kept wondering, what the... what was going on?
Ian Nathan: But at a certain point in time, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
Ian Nathan: But at a certain point in time,
And what greets them isn't a vision, it's a smell. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
And what greets them isn't a vision, it's a smell.
Because over these hours, this kind - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
Because over these hours, this kind
Literally, you gagged when you walked onto the set. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
Literally, you gagged when you walked onto the set.
Ridley wasn't certain how that was going to happen, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
Ridley wasn't certain how that was going to happen,
All this... this innards of a cow and the blood, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
All this... this innards of a cow and the blood,
Dan o'bannon: What they saw was John - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
Dan o'bannon: What they saw was John
They all sort of went like this, and their eyes got big - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
They all sort of went like this, and their eyes got big
Veronica Cartwright: We started to shoot the scene, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
Veronica Cartwright: We started to shoot the scene,
Ian Nathan: And then what happens is brilliant. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
Ian Nathan: And then what happens is brilliant.
There's just this splat, almost like a bullet has hit him. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
There's just this splat, almost like a bullet has hit h...