The horrors begin at sunrise, as a young woman frolics along the beach before heading into the water. Rather than use water tanks, Spielberg’s insistence on an open water shoot made Jaws the first major motion picture to be shot on the ocean. A young boy propels himself on his yellow floatie, only for it to wash up deflated, ripped, and abandoned. When the shark first begins circling Amity, the Fourth of July holiday season is just days away. The film’s release date was strategic, “deliberately delayed until people were in the water off the summer beach resorts,” according to producer David Brown.