Larson, 1984: During the filming of the seventh episode of the series, star Jon-Erik Hexum was supposed to load bullets into a. During the same shoot, Keaton was knocked unconscious by a prop cannon that fired while he was standing close by. Fortunately, he was not in close range and he wasn’t badly injured. “The General,” directed by Buster Keaton, 1926: Assistant director Harry Barnes was shot in the face with a blank round during the filming of Keaton’s comedy in Oregon. In the following scene, when the door gets broken down, they were supposed to switch to blanks. The tragic mix-up happened during a scene where soldiers are shown shooting at a door, during which time DeMille had them use live rounds. DeMille, 1915: An extra named Charles Chandler was shot in the head and killed by a rifle that was supposed to be reloaded with blanks but mistakenly contained a live round. The Industry Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee for the motion picture and television industry’s first safety bulletin is titled, “Recommendations for safety with firearms and use of ‘blank ammunition,’” and carefully details these safety measures including training for those handling prop weapons and explicit reminders to never point a weapon at another person on set.Įverything we know so far about the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the ‘Rust’ setĬinematographer Halyna Hutchins, one of American Cinematographer’s Rising Stars, was killed on the set of ‘Rust.’ Here’s everything we know so far. Prop masters in charge of the guns will require they be checked in and out like real guns, and if a crew member is going to be in close proximity to a prop gun, plastic shields and eye and ear protection often are used. Prop guns are often real guns adapted to use blanks and are generally treated with the utmost care on film sets. He noted that the gunshots on that series were digital.
Craig Zobel, who directed HBO’s “Mare of Easttown,” tweeted Friday that blanks should be outlawed in favor of computer effects. Special effects are so advanced that many feel the risk of using them is unnecessary. The tragic news Thursday that Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on the “Rust” movie set, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza, has amplified long-simmering concerns about the continued use of the kinds of prop guns and blank cartridges that have led to so many deaths.
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