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or injured under circumstances which threaten an investigation, cinema coffers open to muffle grief, invalidism and pain with a blanket of banknotes. Plenty of money provides perfect protection but somehow tales of major and minor disasters keep seeping through the dikes they have built with dollars.
In the filming of Bluebeard's Eighth Wife at Del Monte last winter, a plane crashed, killing two men. Press dispatches stated the plane was used in the picture. This was denied by studio officials.
The Tragedy of Locklear
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(LThe mob scenes of Ingram's " S caramouche" resulted in many bums for the extras posing as revolutionists. These burns came from the flares used to light the "reign of terror" moments.
other. Unless the exhibitors pay, the studios are quiet and the extras are jobless. Exhibitors are essential; extras, even actors honored with a name in the caste of characters, expendable.
, The Harvest of Realism
Jl_ he public demands thrills. Box-office returns show it. The returns are the yard-stick which measure a film in the mind of those who exploit it. The more thrills; the more returns. It is axiomatic. The more returns ; more exhibitorial commendation. Also an axiom. Hence .when eluded for conceding the cruel wages of realism in thrillcanning, the producers shrug their shoulders ; eliminate the middlemen from explanations and blame it on the public, always inarticulate as to alibis. But it must not be gathered that producers are callous in regard to the life-toll of picturemaking. Far from it. They feel it keenly. So keenly in fact that they cannot bring themselves to talk of it. Hence they are silent. Or when silence is impossible they drag in the scapegoat of trick photography. Glibly they invent and cunningly they contrive explanations how .perilous scenes were shot without a single life being imperiled.
"No, sirree ! Not us ! We take care of our people."
When "their people" are killed
fLIVhen Allan Jlohibar filmed "Men, Women and Marriage" the usual quota of injuries resulted in the filming of a charge of A masons in the flashback episode.
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wo years ago Omar Locklear, intrepid daredevil of the skies, lost his life before the eyes of Viola Dana, his asserted sweetheart, as the result of a mid-air crash at night between two planes as the unfortunate sequel to an effort to put punch in a Fox picture.
Not long ago on a local lot a wind-machine killed an unfortunate. The whirling propeller chopped him to pieces. Another lost an arm in a similar manner more recently.
Harold Lloyd had two fingers blown off by a comedy smoke-bomb in a premature explosion which proved tragic. This while posing for a "still" picture.
Extra Girl's Back Broken
T he making of a super-feature required that a girl be thrown to a howling mob. She suffered a broken back.
Many actors have been torn by wild animals. A gorilla, used in the making of Mcrry-Go-Rouhd, developed an