Directed by a very young Steven Spielberg, Jaws may be scary to watch, but it was even scarier for the people who made it. A recreation of the film’s doomed fishing boat, the Orca, is on display at the exhibit. Fifty years after Jaws, Spielberg is arguably the country’s most important living filmmaker — a national treasure — but the exhibit makes clear: Jaws nearly devoured his young career much as the shark eats a swimmer in the film’s famous opening. “The first time I attempted to shoot the scene, Robert had asked me permission. NPR’s Cory Turner at the junkyard in 2010, with Junkyard Bruce, the last shark made from the original Jaws mold.