'Raiders of the Lost Ark': The Adaptation

Two Mississippi kids spent years in the 1980s making a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Here is the first ten minutes....

Raiders of the Lost Backyard
By JIM WINDOLF | VANITY FAIR

When 10-year-old Chris Strompolos and 11-year-old Eric Zala decided to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark, shot for shot, in the summer of 1982, they never imagined it would take 7 years—and emerge, two decades later, as a minor cult phenomenon. A tale of love, obsession, and pissed-off moms.