Until recently, it was only available for viewing in blurry, ruined, truncated prints.However, things changed recently when a fuller version of the film was located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.It played the tinkling tune of "Happy Birthday to You." [Note: Max played the familiar tune up until the very last note - leaving the happy song incomplete and unfinished.No one can argue against the notion that the visuals of nature remained the dominant feature of the film, compared to the sparse and minimal script dialogue that consisted of about 2,000 very simple words (including the song lyrics)."A Captain of the King""s forces (later identified as Captain Phoebus) was also spellbound by the dancer: "That girl, what a beauty!" The King was impressed by her sensual dancing with a tambourine, and mentioned: "The people seem to like her, and so do I.It was also memorable for the cameo appearances of real-life journalists-reporters (Elmer Davis, H.V.Kaltenborn, Drew Pearson, and Gabriel Heater) playing themselves.The entire film was a precursor o Spielberg""sClose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)andE.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and to John Carpenter""sStarman (1984).Director Brad Bird""s animated Cold War fableThe Iron Giant (1999), set in the 1950s, was about another peace-loving giant robot from outer space and its friendship with a young boy, who were sought by a paranoid government agent.