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What Killed The Movie Trailer? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Movie Trailers may have started out as a tool to sell films, but over time they have evolved into their own spectacle. Before a film is released there are a multitude of Theatrical Trailers, TV Spots, Web Shorts, and even Trailers before the Trailer starts. How did Hollywood turn from a simple marketing tool, to a an ever expansive industry of movie trailers that mostly give away the entire plot of the film? How did Hollywood crush the Movie Trailer?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"These days"? They always have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I don't think it really started until the 1980s? OPs video seems to suggest that.

Take a look at this old trailer, there's no way you would guess the plot from that.