Info Wanted: Which trailers accompanied the actual Star Wars movies?

I thought this might be fun. It maybe, sort of, fits into historical preservation.

Starting when I saw The Force Awakens, I’ve noted which trailers accompanied the Star Wars movies in the theaters. Maybe some day, if someone was really feeling nostalgic, you could watch those trailers, followed by your favorite theatrical version of Star Wars. It adds a little bit of historical context.

I have the trailers which accompanied The Force Awakens, Rogue One and The Last Jedi.
Online, I found a list which accompanied The Phantom Menace.
Does anyone know, or can it be determined, which trailers accompanied Star Wars (original theatrical run), The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi (the original THX intro), Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith? The Clone Wars animated movie?

For fun:

The Phantom Menace (I found this online and vaguely from memory, not from my own notes):
Fight Club
Titan A.E.
Anna and the King
The Beach

The Force Awakens trailers (3D IMAX screening):
Kung Fu Panda 3
Warcraft
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The 5th Wave
Independence Day: Resurgence
X-Men: Apocalypse
The Jungle Book (live action)
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Finest Hours
Star Trek Beyond (this trailer drew funny a comment and laughs from our crowd during the motorcycle stunt scene, though the movie itself wasn’t bad)
Captain America: Civil War

Rogue One trailers (3D IMAX showing):
Dunkirk
Transformers: The Last Knight
Logan
Fast & Furious 8
IMAX (put on your 3D glasses now)
Spider-man: Homecoming
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Guardians of the Galaxy, vol. 2
IMAX (get ready to watch a movie)
DLP

Rogue One (2D viewing):
War for the Planet of the Apes
Kong: Skull Island
Guardians of the Galaxy, vol. 2

The Last Jedi (IMAX opening night fan event):
Jurassic World 2
Angel
Alita: Battle Angel
Ready Player One
Incredibles 2
Avengers: Infinity War
Coca Cola commercial
The Last Jedi Opening Night

• interview with Rian Johnson
• John Williams conducting the score
  IMAX countdown

The Last Jedi (2D showing):
Rampage
Avengers: Infinity War

TPM had trailers for American Pie and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, both of which mentioned Star Wars. Fox put together a “sizzle reel” of three short trailers for Anna and the King, Fight Club, and Titan AE. There was a news story several days earlier IIRC that Lucasfilm had actually demanded the total runtime of trailers in front of TPM not exceed ten minutes or so (maybe it was more like 15 minutes, can’t remember now, it was almost 19 years ago).

The trailer for Like Mike played in front of my opening day screening of AotC. I only remember that because a friend joked as we were leaving the theater during the end credits that AotC had no chance of beating its box office.

The first teaser for the Matrix sequels was also in front of AotC. I had just seen the official upload online the night before in what must’ve been tiny quicktime, but I remember my friend sitting next to me going “Zion!” when they showed that wide shot of all the people assembled in the cave.

I can’t for the life of me remember what played in front of RotS. If I had to guess, I’d say Batman Begins and Fantastic Four were probably among them.

Let’s see, for AotC I remember seeing trailers for Minority Report, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Men In Black II, Die Another Day, and Like Mike.

For RotS, I remember trailers for Mr and Mrs Smith, Batman Begins, The Island, and Fantastic Four.

I know I’m forgetting some but it’s been a while!

For TLJ I also remember a trailer for this film I think was called A wrinkle in time or something. All I remember is it had dramatic slowed down “Sweet dreams are made of these…”

Asaki said:

I saw Eps 2 and 3 on opening night, and I honestly couldn’t tell you a single one of the trailers =) Even hearing you guys list some of them, none of it’s ringing any bells.

I want to say that maybe there was a LotR trailer, but I’m sure it was the other way around (Star Wars trailer before LotR).

Attack of the Clones had a preview for Two Towers.

I don’t remember any trailers, but I did see a double feature at my local drive in with TPM and A Knight’s Tale.

Also, this was posted in another thread: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-Episode-II-Attack-of-The-Clones-35mm-motion-picture-film-FULL-FEATURE-/232697163306?hash=item362dd4ee2a%3Ag%3AgJYAAOSwWY5ajOel&nma=true&si=CSCY%2BGKV8%2FYE8H7Yz%2BBBG6cZrxo%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
It lists Like Mike and Minority Report as a part of the package.

Rise of Skywalker’s previews

Free Guy
Wonder Woman 1984
Black Widow
Onward
Mulan Remake

IMAX in New Zealand

Bad Boys for life
1917 (in 1.9:1)
Tenet (Prologue in full 1.44:1)
Mulan Remake

Yes, I took notes at Rise of Skywalker last night.
At an AMC IMAX in Indiana my trailers were as follows:

Sprite
AMC Stubs
The Call of the Wild (Harrison Ford)
IMAX at AMC
James Bond - No Time to Die
Doolittle
Bad Boys for Life
Top Gun Maverick
IMAX films to the fullest
3D gear up
Onward (Pixar)
the following in 3D
Black Widow
Mulan
AMC Prime Pre show Coca Cola
IMAX Countdown

I remember Free Guy, Mulan, No Time to Die, Onward, Tenet, Black Widow, Bad Bois 4 Lyfe, My Spy, and a couple others.

I forgot, Dolittle was included in my bunch, too.

For IX (in my theater):

-Wonder Woman 1984
-Free Guy
-Call of The Wild

That’s all I could remember.

In IMAX theatre in Canada. Not that many.

1. Top Gun Maverick
2. Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (not sure if you’d consider this a trailer or just one of the commercials)
3. Mulan
4. Black Widow

For AOTC special trailers (for DTS and/or THX) it turns out that it was most likely this DTSSONIC and perhaps instead or also one called vaguely DTS (need to look into this DTS labelled one more):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0jRA4b78s

And the THX trailers would have most likely been one or more of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSi0n4nDVDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9idIJ_LMn0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05COcAUq3Z4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOgWbjzFgj4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGo8Sg0VDEY

The AOTC feature itself has Minority Report directly on Reel 1 itself at the start.
The Cinema DTS disc for it also lists:
sandrew (not sure if this is a trailer for a movie or something else, the other stuff all looked to be THX/DTS/various cinema snipes and stuff, maybe this is too)
lkmktrla
minrtrlc

So it seems that all proper showings of it on opening day were to show Like Mike trailer ‘A’ and Minority Report trailer ‘C’ and then perhaps sandrew (if that is a movie trailer). And then beyond that I guess various other things they felt like attaching like various ones mentioned above.

WXM said:

I saw Star Wars about 25 times in the same theater first run, and the two previews for all of those viewings are burned into my memory: The World’s Greatest Lover and Damnation Alley, 100% those showed before SW in its initial run in at least one theater in '77-'78.

I have a very distinct memory of seeing a trailer for Lee Majors in “The Norseman”, but given that came out in Oct 1978, I may have seen it during the summer 78 re-release of Star Wars… of course I was 10 years old and I can’t recall what I had for dinner last night, so who knows.