November 1974: Earthquake's Sensurround system moves audiences.

January 1975: Michael Ovitz, Ron Meyer, and three others depart the William Morris Agency and form CAA.

April 8, 1975: Ingrid Bergman enjoys a career comeback—and reaps an Oscar—with Murder on the Orient Express.

April 1975: Monty Python and the Holy Grail makes the Brit comedy troupe a big-screen hit.

June 23, 1975: Hollywood hype reaches the mainstream when TIME slaps a great white on its cover and heralds Jaws as "Super Shark."

Dec. 24, 1975: Composer Bernard Herrmann dies right after finishing the score for Taxi Driver.

April 1976: The horror, the horror: Martin Sheen replaces Harvey Keitel in Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic, Apocalypse Now.

April 1, 1976: The first midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in New York. Kitsch-loving fans do the time warp again. And again. And again.

September 1976: Columbia prez David Begelman forges a $10,000 check using Cliff Robertson's name. But "Hollywoodgate" doesn't keep him from getting a top job at MGM in 1979.

January 1977: Unknown Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger kicks off a lucrative, uh, body of work with Pumping Iron.

March 1977: The horror, the horror II: Sheen suffers a heart attack on the set of Apocalypse Now. Filming is delayed.

May 1977: Star Wars' Dolby Stere

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