12 Facts About Movie trailers

Movie trailers have now become popular on DVDs and Blu-ray discs, as well as on the Internet and mobile devices.

Later, exhibitors changed their practice so that Movie trailers were only one part of the film program, which included cartoon shorts, newsreels, and serial adventure episodes.

Until the late 1950s, Movie trailers were mostly created by National Screen Service and consisted of various key scenes from the film being advertised, often augmented with large, descriptive text describing the story, and an underscore generally pulled from studio music libraries.

In January 2014, the movie theater trade group National Association of Theatre Owners issued an industry guideline asking that film distributors supply trailers that run no longer than two minutes, which is 30 seconds shorter than the prior norm.

One of the most famous "special shoot" Movie trailers is that used for the 1960s thriller Psycho, which featured director Alfred Hitchcock giving viewers a guided tour of the Bates Motel, eventually arriving at the infamous shower.

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Some Movie trailers that incorporate material not in the film are particularly coveted by collectors, especially Movie trailers for classic films.

Many Movie trailers are mixed in Dolby Digital or any other multichannel sound mix.

Cinematic Movie trailers are usually made entirely separate from the game engine and rely more on CGI.

Gameplay Movie trailers, sometimes referred to as "in-engine" Movie trailers, are made using the game engine and take place inside the game's actual environment.

Common formats of book trailers include actors performing scenes from the book akin to a movie trailer, full production trailers, flash videos, animation or simple still photos set to music with text conveying the story.

Early book Movie trailers consisted mostly of still images of the book, with some videos incorporating actors, with John Farris's book trailer for his 1986 novel Wildwood incorporating images from the book cover along with actors such as John Zacherle.

Cinematic book Movie trailers have become standard marketing tools used by publishers to promote more commercial titles or novels with film potential.