Steven Spielberg’s movie Jaws is credited as the first summer blockbuster, bringing people to the cinema at a time of year that movie studios had previously used to release the movies they held little hope for.

Here we see Spielberg on set in 1975. The movie would go on to smash the previously unobtainable 100-million-dollar mark at the box office and herald Spielberg as one of the industry’s most successful ever directors. It also changed the way the world thought about swimming in the ocean...

The most amazing photos of 1970s America