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2025 Invision

Steven Spielberg, director of the 1975 film "Jaws," addresses the audience during the "Jaws: The Exhibition" press preview on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

LOS ANGELES – Why would anyone keep a prop from the set of “Jaws?”

Steven Spielberg was musing about what it felt like while making his 1975 oceanic classic, and how little he thought any of it would matter when shooting the now-legendary opening scene of a woman night-swimming past an ocean buoy. His primary concern was keeping his job as a 26-year-old director amid unfolding disasters.

“How did anybody know to take the buoy and take it home and sit on it for 50 years?” he said.

That prop is among the first things visitors will

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