Trailers used to be played after the main attraction at the
cinema and there main purpose was to leave the audience wanting more. It
featured previews of upcoming film releases, encouraging the audience to return
to the cinema the next week.
- The first trailer shown in a U.S. cinema was in November 1913.
- It was to advertise The Pleasure Seekers which was a Broadway show being shown at the Winter Garden Theatre.
- Granlund was the man who created the trailer he also was the first to introduce trailer material for an upcoming motion picture.
- He used different slides to create a preview of an upcoming film featuring Charlie Chaplin at Loew's
Some of the first trailers:
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