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Originally posted by: Bossk
In the VH-1 "When Star Wars Ruled the World" special, I can't remember if it was Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher who said they snuck into a movie that was going to be the first showing the SW trailer back in late '76 or early '77 and when the announcer says "coming this summer to a galaxy near you" (or whatever the original line was), someone in the audience chimed in "and coming to a late night TV broadcast very soon after that."
Funny stuff.
And yes, old trailers are very cheesy. Check out the trailers on the Young Frankenstein DVD. Yikes.
Cool, that was the first GL basher ever! 28 years ago!
The most cheesy one is the trailer for "The French Connection", it's almost scary to watch. Yet, not every 70s trailer is cheesy and badly edited, check out the original trailer for "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", it's waaaay ahead of its time! Narrated in chinese, nicely edited, featuring a non-sense chinese restaurant ad at the end... The trailer for "A Clockwork Orange" is also great, I've never seen anything like it, and it was also from the early 70s.