It takes perfect planning to die for the camerasand live to tell the tale.
Equipment worn by professionals, at Preparin~ for a fast-moving stunt, bottom, incl~des pads for knee, hip,J' t/I, actor below has a fifteen-metre and elbow, a variety of padded vestsh, cable attached to his leather vest. and breastplates, and a p;~otective.T Other end is tied to a rope held by helmet completely covered with hair. men seated in back of an open truck.
MOVIE STUNTMEN have a unique profession: It's their daily job to topple off horses, be pierced with arrows, fall from trees-all to fool and excite an audience. But as well-paid professionals who intend to keep on living, they must be highly skilled in calculating the hazards of a stunt. Not so thirty years ago when movies first began using them on a large scale. Then, before a performance, the stuntman fortified himself with a slug of whisky, trusting to luck and his good strong back. Today he belongs to an organization of performers which has a variety of protective~quipment and can use it effectively. One of them says that stuntmen now "are too intelligent, too smart to take crazy chances. A good stuntman won't take a job unless he knows he can do it." Nevertheless, he pays double the ordinary life insurance rates and death sometimes catches up with him on the job.
Stuntman then rides at full gallop Backward fall off the horse, right, away from the truck, brandishing his is almost too realistic. The crewsabre in the air. At the moment the men rush to the actor's aid, but in cable is played out, an "enemy foot a few minutes he is on his feet once soldie( swings a rifle at stuntman. -again, quite ready for the next stunt.