YouTube Deep Dive: Jaws (1975)

Making a mechanical great white is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece, Jaws, from the never ending problems with the film’s shark, to the chaos of filming on the open ocean.
Animation by Paul Crewe (@WieverOfPassion)

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - Peter Benchley’s Jaws
03:48 - Real Sharks Won’t Work
08:42 - Carl Gottlieb’s Improv-ments
10:49 - The Monkey Paw of Martha’s Vineyard
13:02 - Shooting at Sea (without a Shark)
15:28 - Endless Shark Troubles
18:20 - Boredom & Feuds
21:26 - Tempers Flare & Ships Sink
23:18 - Shutting Down Spielberg
25:13 - The Shark Works: Finishing Filming
28:58 - Verna Fields & John Williams
30:51 - Jaws releases Jun 20, 1975
34:22 - The Legacy of Behind the Scenes

Sources:
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: bit.ly/4mKFuRE
Empire: bit.ly/47zMM6p
The Films of Steven Spielberg: bit.ly/45Uuv2w
Hollywood Reporter: bit.ly/3V8QwUY
The Jaws Log: bit.ly/4mmIy6V
Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard: bit.ly/4fB24K8
Reel Terror: bit.ly/4mLM9vw
Steven Spielberg: A Biography: bit.ly/46U6vh0
Vanity Fair: bit.ly/45JVe1S
Variety: bit.ly/46gjp7b

In The Teeth of Jaws (1997)
Jaws: The Inside Story (2010)
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)
The Making of Jaws (1995)
The Shark Is Still Working (2007)
Spielberg (2017)
Spotlight on Location: The Making of Jaws (2000)

Featured Footage:
Finding Nemo (2003)
Jaws (1975) and special features
The Simpsons (1989- )

CBS Sunday Morning (y2u.be/CVLMXao4iro)
Corridor Crew (y2u.be/fPNpFqXraKE)
Directors Guild of America (y2u.be/H1tWKm9GsPg)
The Late Show (y2u.be/YTKs0JRVlrQ)
The Movie Rabbit Hole (y2u.be/7ttG90raCNo)
Television Academy Foundation (y2u.be/QFrWDiDM5hk)

Music:
Daniel Pemberton - Into the Spider-Verse OST
John Williams - Jaws OST
Ryan Hudson - Sh*t Show Theme
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