Inside Jaws  Fascinating photos from the 1974 set of Spielbergs iconic movie are made public for the
Fascinating images of the iconic Jaws movie being filmed in 1974 have been shared for the first time, 44 years after its release.
Images from the Marthas Vineyard beach show director Steven Spielberg chatting away with extras on the sand, and a technician with his upper body inside the head of one of three mechanical sharks used to portray the beast.
But amateur photographer Billy Reagan and his family did not know it was to become the seventh highest grossing film of all time in the North America when they snaps were taken decades ago during his high school years.
Images provide a never before seen look inside the Dukes County, Massachusetts set that turned Oaks Bluffs harbor into Shark City.
The popular tourist destination is taken over by trucks and huge wooden structures to help pull of the dramatic motion picture.
People are seen submerged in the water or sitting in boats alongside props to emulate shark fins, fins that infamously kept sinking. 
The boat shots and a snap of the flicks helmer are from a time when a victim played by Teddy Grossman flips over in his boat and is eaten by the beast.
Reagan managed to largely keep the photographs under wraps for at least 20 years before John Campopiano and his wife Stephanie were guests at his Attleboro House – which just happened to be used as the home of the famous flicks Chief Brody. 
After the film buff and huge Jaws fan stayed at the property in the 1990s, Reagan had no qualms about sharing images with an excited Campopiano. Prior to that he had also pulled the prints out from his basement to show family and friends.
But once Campopiano laid eyes on the pictures, knowledge spread among his creative contacts who were shocked to discover they hadnt come across the images themselves.
The moments caught on camera were so rarely seen that even Jim Beller, a huge Jaws collector who compiled the 2011 book Jaws: Memories From Marthas Vineyard book with Matt Taylor.
Snaps from that book feature hundreds of photographs that hadnt been seen before eight years ago. 
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