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Stunts at the carnaval

posted 16 years ago by filmfanaticNorCal
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Were those shooting stunts real at the carnaval?

They looked very convincing. Maybe there was a shooter behind Cummins shooting the ballons and the chalk ....possible?

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[–] LudwA 16 years ago

probably someone popping the balloons with a needle behind the wall..

[–] miriamwebster 15 years ago

Everything had to be either rigged from the back or was a trick prop--if someone missed, they'd had have had to recast the picture! (And assuming that even if someone was a good enough shot to hit a matchhead with a bullet from across the stage, the end of the match wouldn't ignite; it'd simply be blown off.)

[–] clive-ihd 15 years ago

I was surprised that Annie let a volunteer from the audience shoot the matches on her head-dress. He might have beaten her at the first shooting challenge, but he might still miss and shoot her.

[–] pery-1 11 years ago

That wasn't realistic - guy being an expert with a gun he'd never shot before! But who cares, it's a great movie.

[–] silverr8c 11 years ago

The movie was not real but I have seen people light matches before.

Bob Munden who recentlu passed away was one of the greatest trick shootist that ever lived

Go to utube and watch him do some amazing shooting

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bob+munden+impossible+shot s&oq=bob+mu&gs_l=youtube.1.5.35i39j0l9.2468.4658.0.9084.6.6.0. 0.0.0.218.736.2j3j1.6.0...0.0...1ac.1.687Y5lHVk2g

People have shot playing cards but Bob hit the card edgewise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mtNuuSx-9g

How about shooting an aspirin off the head of a nail without touching the nail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1AKixLXO8&list=PL304BD5BDF60CF1FF &index=9

Fast forward to the 11 minute mark on this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thCl_mYIUBE&list=PL304BD5BDF60CF1FF

My 30 round AR-15 magazine and my 50 round Thompson machine gun magazines are standard capacity magazines I have no hi capacity mags all my magazines care standard capacity, 30 and 50 round mags

[–] techie_luddite 11 years ago

Just because it can be done, you'd have to be a real dope to volunteer to have someone (especially someone you don't even know) shoot at matches on a headdress on your head.

[–] silverr8c 11 years ago

You are forgetting when the movie was filmed. Back then people did a lot of stujpid and reckless things.

[–] defiant-10 13 years ago

There's no chance they were real, but whoever was working the effects and timing the squibs was doing a very good job, unlike so many current films where a shot's ruined by bad timing, or blanks that puke out a shower of burnt wadding and demonstrate it's fake.

What I had in mind was boxing the compass.

[–] tdl797 11 years ago

I can think of ways how most could be done except for ones where something is in her mouth and explodes. Maybe the woman was a stunt woman herself. Notice how it cuts to close up. Maybe there was something she bit on herself to make the little explosion, or maybe it really was shot off, but from extremely close just off camera?