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The chariot race in the famous film "Ben Hut."
upsetting its tripod and flinging the platform on which Beaumont and Brodine were working, into the air.
Camera and photographer fell to earth, fortunately separating in mid-air so that no damage resulted, apart from a few bruises.
When Robert Montgomery was engaged in filming Shipmates, his first starring picture, the cameraman and production staff were on a barge, which was being towed by a tug-boat.
THE latter increased its speed, the bow of the barge went high into the air, its stem sank below the level of the water, and workers and equipment were hurled into the sea The tug promptly turned about and saved the men.
The next day divers brought the cameras and equipment to the surface and when the film was developed it was found to be uninjured by its submersion.
Countless stories are told of the risks undertaken in the filming of aeroplane scenes.
Not infrequently, when aviation was in its infancy, cameramen were obliged to stand on one of the wings, their weight offset by bags of ballast on the other wing, and, holding on to a strut for support, film the occupant of the pilot’s seat as well as the land below.
In one early stunting picture the photographer straddled the fuselage, his camera mounted before
him The pilot, thinking that the camera had been secured, started up, and the cameraman had to hold his seat and also save the camera. He managed to do it, though at considerable expense to his nerves !
In more recent years there have been many aerial accidents whilst filming, although such mishaps are very small in proportion to risks taken.
Two well known films in which aerial fatalities occurred are Such Men are Dangerous and Hell’s Angels.
In the first-named the ’plane carrying Kenneth Hawks, the director and husband of the famous star, Mary Astor, his assistant and the cameraman, nose-dived into the Pacific Ocean during the actual filming of some big air thrills for the picture.
All aboard the aeroplane lost their lives.
In the making of Hell's Angels the fatal accidents were so frequent that the film achieved world-wide notoriety — in fact the cameramen, pilots and stunt artistes engaged in the film were referred to as Hollywood's Suicide Club.
Very often when in no great danger themselves, cameramen have secured the most amazing pictures through continuing to crank the camera when an unrehearsed thrill has presented itself.
Probably the most famous instance of this was the chariot race accident in the making of Ben Hur when two chariot teams came into collision.
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