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• Harold Lloyd was one of Hollywood’s first moviemakers and he did his own stunts. His career nearly ended in 1919 due to a mix-up. The prop department manufactured bombs that looked like small black bowling balls with a fuse sticking out. Some of them were full of real flash powder and some of them were merely smoke bombs. • During a publicity shoot, Lloyd picked up what he thought was a harmless smoke bomb, lit the fuse, and proceeded to light the publicity man’s cigarette from the fuse. Unfortunately the prop man had mixed some of the live bombs in with the fake ones, and the bomb exploded catastrophically while Lloyd was holding it. • He was lucky he wasn’t killed. As it was, he lost his thumb and forefinger, suffered facial lacerations, and nearly lost an eye. The blast blew a hole in the studio ceiling, split a production worker’s false teeth in half, and caused the photographer to faint. The prop man and cameraman were also injured, but recovered. (continued next page) Sunset Dr

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• Tom Mix was a rodeo champion in the early 1900s. One day a rodeo organizer showed him a cable from a film company looking for cowboys willing to do stunt work for a movie they were making. Mix signed up and that’s how he got started in films. • In 1914 Mix was acting as safety man during the filming of “Lost in the Jungle.” Heroine Kathryn Williams was to cower between two logs while a leopard menaced her. The leopard had been trained to catch and kill chickens, and a chicken was tied directly behind the actress out of camera range. Mix stood by with a shotgun just in case. • As the leopard stalked the chicken, the breeze kicked up, ruffling Kathryn’s hair which flew up into a feathery halo. The confused leopard leapt at the actress instead of the chicken, sinking its claws into her head. Mix, unable to shoot the animal without endangering the actress, grabbed the leopard by the tail and dragged it off. • The director saw the potential in this heroic act and Tom Mix’s career as an actor and stuntman was launched. He went on to make 70 Westerns for the studio, performing all his own stunts. He ended up breaking each leg four times as well as fracturing ribs, ankles, and hands. His popularity soared until he was one of Hollywood’s top stars, earning $17,000 per week. He died in 1940 in a car crash at the age of 60.

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• Guinness Book of World Records awarded Jackie Chan the record for the most film credits for his work in the movie “Chinese Zodiac” where he was not only the lead actor performing all his stunts, but also the writer, director, producer, cinematographer, art director, production manager, prop man, gaffer, composer, theme song vocalist, and catering coordinator.

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• William Duncan, a Scottish actor, insisted on doing his own stunts. In 1915 he plunged off an 80-foot cliff into the sea, but the cameras on the boats were rocked so violently by the waves that they were unable to get any close-up shots of Duncan supposedly drowning. So they moved to a 10-foot deep indoor tank in a studio. • In the script, Duncan’s character plunges off the cliff to avoid capture by pursuing guards, who then shoot at him in the water. To simulate rifle shots hitting the water, production assistants were armed with heavy iron nuts and instructed to hurl them at Duncan’s head as he was going under. • To ensure a life-like drowning, Duncan was tied to a rope which ran through an iron ring on the bottom of the tank and over to several men on the opposite side who were to pull on the rope to drag Duncan under. Duncan was then supposed to release himself from the rope and swim to the surface. • Just as Duncan was being pulled under, one of the nuts hit him in the head, knocking him senseless. He suddenly found himself underwater, tied to a rope with no recollection of what he was supposed to do. He nearly drowned before the details of how to release himself from the rope came back to him. Meanwhile, the assistants were standing around the tank thinking, “Gee, he sure can stay under water a long time.”

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