You'll notice the van's lights come on as he's starting to turn. It's possible he was fiddling with how to turn on the lights.

http://media2.fdncms.com/csindy/imager/u/zoom/3208620/coverstory3-1_girlblood-aa63ca74ae13df9a.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuqAnAFkR_o

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-86zPFR4R0Ko/hail_ants_1_wmv/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8H8CSojis

A better one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poV6lc2b070

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Pete-Townshend-discusses-writing-with-synthesizers-ext

ugh

Speilberg directed the film. It was his baby. He was only uncredited because of contractual limitations. From the Wikipedia entry...

A clause in his contract with Universal Studios prevented Spielberg from directing any other film while preparing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Time and Newsweek tagged the summer of 1982 "The Spielberg Summer" because E.T. and Poltergeist were released a week apart in June. As such a marketable name, some began to question Spielberg's role during production. Suggestions that Spielberg had greater directorial influence than the credits suggest were aided by comments made by the writer/producer:

"Tobe isn't... a take-charge sort of guy. If a question was asked and an answer wasn't immediately forthcoming, I'd jump in and say what we could do. Tobe would nod agreement, and that become the process of collaboration."

No thanks.

*kill

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*kill

My brothers and I have quoted this scene regularly, since we first saw this classic... lol

Pretty cool, but I still prefer this one.