Blanks

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Originally Posted by Krel

I read after the "Twilight Zone" movie tragedy, that one of the new changes was new restrictions on using live ammo. They used to use live ammo to shoot holes in car doors and barricades. James Cagney said that for the scene in "White Heat" where they were shooting at him with machine guns, they were really shooting at him! Last year I saw a photo of them shooting that scene. There was a marksman on a platform aiming a Thompson smg at the building near the actors.

David.

This was right below the 1911 comment.

==Early Blank Adaption and Live Fire==
The early films using Maxim or Vickers firing used blanks also but not the blanks we use today. The blanks used in the early movies were military blanks that had either a wood or paper bullet. The blank adapter on both the Maxim and the Vickers was designed to shred the wood or paper bullets. But by using those types of blanks the weapon would work as intended. It was not until the use of wadded or crimped blank that the weapons had to be redesigned to function properly as there was no pressure build up like the blanks with the wooden bullets. The live rounds fired on set in the early days were standard rounds. Most of the time they would have a expert shooter off camera firing toward the actors location right after they moved. You can spot this in early westerns when a bullet strikes a sign it's a bullet hole and not a squib hit. It is harder to spot these in the early gangster movies but they are there also. The use of blanks came became a standard on set after a incident on a Cagney movie after that movie no live fire were allowed on set. - [[User:Phoenixent|Phoenixent]] 08:49, 26 July 2009 (UTC)