Movie trailers are, at their core, just another form of advertising. They serve to get us excited about seeing the next blockbuster,  remind us that a new favorite is coming to DVD, or entice us into tracking down an opus we’ve never seen before.  And putting trailers into the Archive amounts to free advertising for these films.

In that spirit, I offer “Trailerama,” culled from my DVD collection. It includes come-ons for mega-budget flicks, no-budget labors of love, and the usual dose of pure cinematic schlock.

Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3) in the title indicate multiple trailers for the same movie; Roman numerals (I, II, III) indicate separate trailers for movies in a series (the three installments of “Back to the Future,” for example). I included dates where I know of multiple movies with the same title.

In this batch:

Terror Creatures

The Bad and the Beautiful

The Betrayal

The Birds

The Hearse

The Hostage

The Last Chase

The Sandlot

The Searchers

The Statue

The Thing (1982)

The Trip (1967)

Three Godfathers

Thunder Alley

To Catch a Thief

Topaz

Torn Curtain

The Trouble with Harry

True Romance

Two Weeks in Another Town

Weekend Pass

White Sands

Wolfen

WΔZ (a/k/a Killing Gene)

Young Frankenstein 1

Young Frankenstein 2

Young Frankenstein 3

Young Frankenstein 4

Young Frankenstein 5

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