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09th Jun 2015

Check out the original Back to the Future teaser trailer

Back to looking forward...

Nooruddean Choudry

We think of movie teasers as being quite a modern phenomenon…

The briefest glimpse of a forthcoming attraction is enough to break the internet with fevered speculation.

But they’re far from a recent invention. Long before Marvel were tantalising us with sneaky peeks, teaser trailers were tempting kids of the television age.

Michael J Fox is 54 on Tuesday, and so here’s the original teaser for Back to the Future from 1985.

As you can see, it starts off looking like a Nike advert but there’s enough hints of the famous DeLorean to get the heart racing. And that’s before we even see Marty…