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That bears resemblance to the story of Asimov’s “Nightfall” from 1941. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel) https://en.wikipedia
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That bears resemblance to the story of Asimov’s “Nightfall” from 1941. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_an...:
“Campbell asked Asimov to write the story after discussing with him a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!
Campbell's opinion was to the contrary: "I think men would go mad". He and Asimov chose the title together.”
The first photo in this article also makes me think “Close encounters of the third kind”, but I’m not sure it had such images. Maybe an earlier SF movie?