The Academy Museum Celebrates 50 Years of 'Jaws.' Hollywood Can Still Learn From the Movie

"The shark is not working." These words rang across Martha's Vineyard in the mid-1970s. At the time, Steven Spielberg had set up shop on the small island to film a cinematic adaptation of Peter Benchley's hit novel, "Jaws." It was to be a true test for the young filmmaker, tasked with directing what would become accepted as the first blockbuster film in Hollywood history. Yet the filming of "Jaws" became fraught, a cautionary tale of sea-sickness, missed deadlines and mechanical sharks that just refused to work properly. Every step of this process has been immortalized at the . . .