Coming Soon: The Art of the Movie Trailer

Coming Soon: The Art of the Movie Trailer

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From the Digital Box Set: This week - just in time for the Oscars - we take our annual look at creative movie trailers. We’ll see how Walt Disney convinced the public to watch the first-ever full-length animated movie, why some trailers don’t show a frame of the actual film they’re advertising, how some trailers contain footage not found in the movie itself and we’ll tell the story of why thousands of people bought tickets to a movie, watched a trailer, then got up and went home. This is an archived episode that aired originally on February 23, 2013.