TV commercials for "Jaws" were also inescapable. For its first release in 1975, the movie earned $260 million domestically, a number that has since ballooned to $477.92 million globally ...

But "Jaws" was a huge success, making more at the box office than any other film had at the time. Part of the success of the film, according to the Library of Congress, was the huge marketing campaign ...