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a tiny film promising everything the movie spends two hours failing to deliver
means A trailer is a vehicle towed behind another, a haulable home or cargo box on wheels, or — confusingly — a short promotional preview of a film or show.
from From the verb 'trail,' itself from Old French 'trailler' (to tow, to drag along), with roots reaching back toward Latin 'tragula,' a kind of dragnet. A trailer was literally a thing that trails behind — so the wheeled sense is the honest, original one. The movie sense is the odd cousin: early film previews were tacked onto the END of a reel, trailing after the feature, which is exactly where they made the least sense and were promptly moved to the front, keeping the now-backwards name.
- original spot
- first ones played after movies, hence trailer
- runtime cap
- theaters limit them to about two minutes
- separate craft
- specialist houses edit trailers, not the film's director
- spoiler machine
- studies show many reveal the entire plot
- music lie
- trailer songs often never appear in the film
airstream — iconic aluminum travel trailer first produced in 1931, still manufactured today
winnebago — leading rv manufacturer founded in 1958, revolutionized recreational trailers
movie trailer — short film preview shown before movies, first used by mgm in 1912