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This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the now-classic film that made us afraid to go into the ocean: Jaws , the story of a monster shark that terrorizes a New England beach town.

Directed by a very young Steven Spielberg, Jaws may be scary to watch, but it was even scarier for the people who made it. Bad weather, fickle tides and malfunctioning mechanical sharks plagued Spielberg and his crew and sent the film spiraling over budget and months over schedule.

Now you can experience just how hard it was to bring Jaws to the big screen with a new exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, full of iconic props (the shattered shark cage!), script pages with Spielberg's handwritten notes and even a scale replica of the mechanical shar

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