History Of Film Trailers

Film trailers were first seen in 1913, from then up until the 1950's film trailers consisted of the various key scenes from the film it was advertising, there would also be large text describing what was happening in the trailer, however this was not a good way of advertising films as all the main scenes in the film would have been shown in the trailer. Film trailers started to modernise in the 1960's, textless trailers began to appear that were montages of clips from the film, things such as quick editing became popular. Today film trailers are much different and show a few scenes from the film to give the audience an idea of what the film is about without revealing any of the key scenes, also instead of descriptive text being on the screen there is often some narration.