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Iirc that picture was "faked" in the sense that the perspective makes it seem more dangerous than it is. There's actually a platform under him.
Yeah but, this guy died.
...years later. But he did die.
Posing for trick photography has a 100% fatality rate...eventually.
That's the same rate of death that getting your family picture taken at Sears has.
Those bastards
That's it! I'm never having my picture taken at, behind or in front of a Sears! It's just too risky!
I believe ~~Charlie Chaplin~~ did similar stunts back in the day
The end results are badass though. Totally looks like they are dangling in peril
Edit: Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. Not Charlie Chaplin
I don't think Chaplin was known for that kind of stunts, but Buster Keaton was. Like the classic clip where the front of a house collapses on him and he's standing right where the window falls.
Buster Keaton did a lot of this kind of thing with perspective and stuff, but he was also a badass who did some incredible stunts.
I dunno if he was known for it or not, but Chaplin did this sort of thing too. There's a roller skating clip of him "almost falling" a couple floors in this compilation (2nd clip)
https://youtu.be/oBSpuZDKaKI
That was a matte painting, there was no actual stunt there, just camera tricks.
That same video has a clip of Buster Keaton riding a motorcycle over a collapsing bridge. The part with the trucks was camera tricks. The part with the bridge falling was a real stunt.
This’d be more of a Harold Lloyd thing
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Maybe, but this guy (Charles N. Fidgerald) was a true daredevil and this photo is not the craziest thing he did.
Supports the claim people were more sensible back then. Today we have moron YouTubers who actually climb such heights without any safety.
Well where else are they going to post it? LiveLeak shut down.