Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Before the Green Screen, Stunt-Man Safety Was Measured by Seconds, Not Computers: Time Machine (August 1946)
Popular Mechanics: "During the heyday of the western in 1946, long before the development of green screens and other next-gen F/X tools, Popular Mechanics examined the safety methods and devices ensuring that stuntmen’s risk of life and limb would go no further than absolutely necessary."
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Well its good that movie making is becoming safer for actors and stunt men but what I find interesting is how that changes the market of who gets hired. In order to make the same western movie 60 years ago when the producer would have been casting a stuntman who could run quickly out of a burning building he is now hiring a man who probably cannot run a mile but who can make a lot of things happen on a computer. No wonder obesity is such a problem now.
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