The Only Surviving Jaws Shark Was Never in the Movie #Jaws

The only surviving Jaws shark was never used to film the movie. Three rubber-and-latex sharks were built to shoot Jaws (1975), and all three were eventually discarded. A fourth shark, cast in fiberglass from the original mold for promotional display at Universal Studios Hollywood, is the one that survived. In 1990 it ended up in an auto-wrecking yard, and in 2016 it was donated to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

Jaws behind the scenes, movie history and the true story of the fourth shark, explained with original MOVIEVAULT graphics (no movie footage).

Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, January 7, 2016: https://www.oscars.org/museum/only-surviving-jaws-shark-acquired-academy-museum

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