The 1961 short 'Fighter Squad' was shot at the Sky Harbor Airport hangar in Phoenix and featured grounded former WWII fighter planes.

'When I see a PlayStation, when I look at a cell phone - from the smallest calculator to an iPad - I look at my dad and I say, 'My dad and a team of geniuses started that.''Īrnold Spielberg also supported his only son's devotion to movies, giving him access to gear and helping his teenage son make his first films with a home movie camera. Steven credits his dad for his own devotion to new technology. That led to a career in the new field of computer science that included stints working for RCA, GE, Electronic Arrays, SDS, Burroughs and IBM. He developed a fascination with gadgets during his military service and got an engineering degree from the University of Cincinnati on the G.I. Arnold Spielberg was a radio operator and chief communications man for the 490th Bomb Squadron, also known as the “Burma Bridge Busters.” (Photo: Business Wire)Īrnold married Leah Posner after his return home and son Steven was born in 1946 at the beginning of the post-war baby boom.

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