Jaws: The 25th Anniversary Documentary
For the Silver Anniversary (year 2000) of "Jaws", filmmakers Richard Boluk and Clarke M. Smith met online and traveled to Martha's Vineyard to shoot locations and interview people involved with the production. The idea was to take their prized footage and create a documentary out of it. That didn't happen. With the advent of Jaws saturation like the E. True Hollywood story and others, not to mention their archaic video quality of the time, they decided to abandon the project. Then somehow 10 years went by. Then, the brilliant "The Shark Is Still Working" came out (which they happily supplied some interview and b-roll footage to), and by then it was old news, and their tapes continued to gather dust. A few years later, Jamie Benning used some of our audio for his amazing Inside Jaws filmumentary. Those interviews were shot in 2000. It was time to release them as part of the 40th anniversary of Jaws and share them with the public. This website documents their trip in detail, as it always has. But now we've added all the interview and location footage to each section. These are basically unedited interviews, and we hope you enjoy them.
