Contact (1997)

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And now for the big update: the sky map used by Ellie in a couple of scenes.


This is (as Mike J. already noticed) one of the charts from Wil Tirion's Sky Atlas 2000.0 (1st edition), most likely the deluxe version. The chart in question is number 8 made specifically for/by the movie crew. I finally managed to find (after countless of hours of search) some great scans of the charts on a Russian astronomy site (no Dark Web was used for this), but the legend was translated to russian and the title is missing. I used lots of images found on eBay and Worthpoint to recreate the chart's header with legend:


This map is huge and should print at 870 x 640 mm.

Another chart is visible in the scene where Ellie got the e-mail from Hadden (upper left corner, behind the monitor):


And here is chart number 7 recreated, which should print at 530x 390 mm:


And now my replicas.
This chart (the small version, just like chart 7) was printed on 4 sheets of A4 plain paper, then glued together with double sided adhesive tape:


Made another one printed on 2 semi-glossy A3 paper:


And here's a comparison of the 2 versions printed on the semi-glossy paper (normal and scaled up):


The scaled up version was printed on 6 sheets of A3 paper, but I'll have to glue them together.

And finally chart number 7 printed also on 2 semi-glossy A3 paper:

 

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Regarding the Earth with stars poster (in post #16 ==> Contact (1997)), I noticed that this is a foreshadow of Ellie's travel through the stars, more exactly when she sees a planet with four stars and she yells they're alive!:


And here's an image (made of 3 screenshots) which can be made as an alternative poster:


Have fun!

 

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Managed to cut and glue together the large sky chart:


One down... a couple billion to go:


Then put the earth with stars poster next to it:


Then the postcard and the note with the compass:

 

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Early in December, last year, I bought from eBay Wil Tirion's Sky Atlas 2000.0 (Deluxe Edition) and in the 27th day of the same month I got this beauty:


It is in very good condition and was pretty cheap, around 62 USD (this include the shipping from US to Romania). This is the 1st edition, which is the correct one for this project.

I had to scan chart #8 and after I did my magic we got this:


Printed at full size the dimensions are 870 x 667 mm.

 

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Here is the Sophie Flips the Bird postcard totally redone with accurate fonts and everything else redrawn/vectorized. The front was enhanced with Topaz Photo AI:

 

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Hadden's Meet Here map sent to Ellie:


This is either a made up map or an existing map modified for the movie. Because my search met no results, I said that this is a fairly easy task to be drawn from scratch, and so I did; I've drawn the roads and some of the main elements:


Just before I further tackled the map, I did another search with Google Lens and, to my surprise, I have found the original map in a pretty good resolution:

The 1st image is the original one, while the 2nd image was cleaned up. For the movie, the prop department used the lower half part of the map, but not before some elements were removed and/or moved, while other elements were added.
Here's the map with all the removed-moved/added elements:

The text on the left side is based on the limited screenshots from an upscaled print: the Hadden Communications is "clearly" visible, while the rest is kind of "correctly" guesstimated. Made the map as a shorter LTR in size, more exactly 215,9 x 266 mm.

Update (doh!)
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I forgot to add the drawn directions on the roads. I'll do a colored version with a red mark and the copied, monochrome map.

Here is the map with red and black indications: