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Filming of Jaws, 1974

Edith Blake

For Jaws, Some Progress — For the 400, an Ice Water Romp

Edith Blake | Friday, July 12 1974 - 9:40am

“We’ll go again,” said the assistant director, Tom Joyner, and into the valley of death waded The 400 with cameras to the right of them, and cameras to the left of them.

The water was cold, cold, cold, and what sunshine there was was most uncooperative. It was Sunday, the last day of June, and really not an ideal day to spend (all of it, every last bit of it) on the beach. The leftover northeast winds were still onshore and so were about 600 people.

A Grisly Audition

Vineyard Gazette

This freshly-killed brown shark — a man-eater — was laid out on the steps of Universal Studios’ Edgartown office sometime before dawn Friday.

A Night for Celebration — JAWS Begins at Its Beginnings

It was a night for celebrating.

Jaws Opens in Its Birthplace, to Capacity Benefit Audiences

William A. Caldwell

Jaws, a film starring Martha’s Vineyard and a polyurethane shark named Bruce, will have its first showings tonight on the Island which was its birt

Jaws in Retrospect

In the words of the movies, Jaws has “wrapped,” struck its sets and stolen away in mammoth trucks.

Who but the Jaws Company Would Build an Orca Designed Not to Float but to Head for the Bottom?

Boats since the beginning of time have been built to float, or at least that’s the object, but Universal Studios (which of late does the unusual) h

The Jaws Family and the Island People Got Together Monday Evening and It Was Great

While Washington has been putting on a continuing spring and summer show, Martha’s Vineyard has had one of its own, and the show is Jaws.