Friday, February 17, 2017

Fun Fact Friday: Movie trailers?

Image result for trailer rvSo... trailers...you pull them behind a car.

If you are walking with a group of people and your friend is trailing the group, that means your friend is behind the group.

In a detective movie, if someone is trailing the suspect, they are usually walking or driving behind them.

So, why are movie trailers shown before movies?

Image result for old movie trailerWell, because at the beginning of the motion picture era, they were shown, indeed, after (behind) the main movie!  Thus, they trailed the movie and were called "trailers."

Imagine going to watch the newest Star Wars film and after all the credits, you discover that there are a bunch of movie trailers!

You're probably thinking: I never stay to see all the credits in the first place, so I'd never see the trailers.  Yep, movie companies realized that too and so trailers got moved to the front of feature films.  But...they just kept the name: "trailers."
Image result for star wars movie trailer

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