In the words of the movies, Jaws has “wrapped,” struck its sets and stolen away in mammoth trucks.
At Katama, shooting started yesterday on Jaws. Around the Universal Studios offices the day before, one wouldn’t have believed it was going to happen.
For a nerve-tattering 24 hours this week, Universal Studios’ production on Martha’s Vineyard of the smash-to-be film Jaws was a suspense story that no audience will ever see.
The $3 1/2-million project had run afoul of the law — the production crew had not gotten permission to do a batch of things it was doing.
And permission-getting, which involves formal public notice (see legal advertisements, Page Two), hearings, and mature deliberation, can be agonizingly long. Production costs are budgeted at $30,000 a day.
