I kinda feel like they gave away too much of the story in this trailer, but I'm still interested in seeing it.


Synopsis: Since their creation in 1913, movie trailers and the audience have shared a special relationship that has grown and evolved as the trailers themselves have over the years. Movie Trailers: A Love Story looks at this relationship from its euphoric highs all the way to, as most relationships have, frustrating lows. Like any great romance, the trailer and the audience always find their way back to each other.

I watch Campea daily and have been one of his Patreon supporters. He's been working on this movie for well over a year now. I'm looking forward to seeing it. Recently he said on his show that he should have final distribution details on it by next month. He put in a lot of work into this and got some decent people and film pundits as interview subjects.

In case anyone is interested, this documentary is now available to watch.


https://vimeo.com/ondemand/movietrailers

$6 rental from Amazon video and Vimeo on demand

Rented this today and watched it tonight. I really enjoyed it. It's a nice little documentary. Campea got some good people to share their insights on trailers. I especially enjoyed hearing Grae Drake, Scott Mantz and Robert Meyer Burnett. He covers pretty much everything you could think of regarding movie trailers and their impact in our fandom and movie-going.

If you have 80 minutes, it's totally worth the $6 rental.

John Campea just released his documentary for free on YouTube after 5 years. It’s streaming live right now. If you have YouTube on your streaming device, this is totally worth a watch later. Very interesting topics covered.

Does the film talk about how much longer older trailers were and how often they featured spoilers for the movie? The trailer for WHITE HEAT (1949) was fantastic and excited an audience I saw it with in 1979, but it had tons of spoilers in it.

The worst trailer experience I ever had was the one for MAME (1974) starring Lucille Ball and Bea Arthur. It was interminable and ran in front of every movie I went to see during a trip to San Francisco in January 1974 and the audience grew audibly annoyed everytime. I'm sure more people made a firm decision never to see the movie after that trailer than were convinced otherwise. Besides, Lucy was already a TV has-been by this point, a very rich one to be sure, but not one to draw a crowd anymore--in any medium. Warner Brothers really shot itself in the foot with that one.

It's less than 80 minutes and free watch on YouTube, why don't you just check it out for yourself?

Especially since you have said you don't really keep up with current movies. So you can learn how they are marketed these days.

Got done with it (Thanks for bumping this thread, DJ) Really fascinating to learn about The National Screen Service (My 1st time ever hearing about this) but it did make me wonder if Universal actually made trailers for their Monster Hits from the early 30s. If so, they're obviously long lost now (And no, the trailers found on all current physical media releases don't count given that those are re-release trailers from the late 30s)