This is ridiculous.

If you don't have enough space to show paging arrows, you certainly don't have enough space to view the content.

Where there's a will, there's a way. To disable movie, PDF, and other useless previews, but still maintain the image on the icon, use this from Terminal:

$ defaults write com.apple.finder QLInlinePreviewMinimumSupportedSize -int 512

Then relaunch the Finder.

Halle-fricken-lujah!

@chockenberry omg what!!! Running this immediately