Becoming Spielberg | 1
Inside Jaws
Wondery
4.2 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In 1916 a killer shark terrorized the New Jersey shore in one of the inspirations for the movie JAWS. Cut to: Phoenix, AZ in the 1960’s, where a young Steven Spielberg is an outsider struggling to fit in. He’s ashamed of his heritage, bad at school, bad at sports, bad at everything. And then he discovers the magic of moving images on an oversized screen. It turns out he’s good at something after all.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Prime members, you can listen to Inside Jaws, ad free on Amazon Music, download the app today. |
| 0:07.0 | The following contains mature content. You've been warned. |
| 0:17.0 | From Wundry, I'm Mark Ramsey, and this is part one of Inside Jaws. July 1, 1916, 2016, a perfect day at the Jersey Shore. |
| 0:45.0 | Charles Van Zant was in the mood for a swim. Hey, let me show you how far out I can go. |
| 0:59.0 | He was 25, a smart looking young man with dark slick back hair. |
| 1:04.0 | Charles was a stockbroker from a prominent Philadelphia family |
| 1:08.0 | and this was his first swim of the summer season. |
| 1:13.0 | As he passed, of the summer season. |
| 1:20.0 | As he petled out, he could see the fine young women with their petticoats and parasols, they were watching from the shore. |
| 1:23.0 | That cheer, that was for him. |
| 1:25.0 | A few others were in the water too, but he passed them now. |
| 1:29.0 | He was all alone. |
| 1:30.0 | A man and his ocean and his dog. |
| 1:35.0 | He paused just to listen and he turned on his back and floated. |
| 1:45.0 | He was engaged to be married to a beautiful woman. |
| 1:51.0 | He was young and strong and handsome with a fine career. It was a perfect day and he had a perfect life. |
| 2:00.0 | And a golden retriever named Jack. |
| 2:03.0 | Jack, come on back. |
| 2:05.0 | Jack was swimming to the shore. |
| 2:08.0 | Fine, Charles had made his point. |
| 2:11.0 | He looked at the sand, people there, dots on the horizon. A head the Ingleside Hotel, a grand and glorious gem on the water. |
| 2:36.0 | There you could find sophisticated ladies and gentlemen who journeyed from New York City and Philadelphia every summer. The cities emptied and they came. They came for the |
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