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[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but, this guy died.

...years later. But he did die.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Posing for trick photography has a 100% fatality rate...eventually.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's the same rate of death that getting your family picture taken at Sears has.

Those bastards

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That's it! I'm never having my picture taken at, behind or in front of a Sears! It's just too risky!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This’d be more of a Harold Lloyd thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That's it! Thank you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Maybe, but this guy (Charles N. Fidgerald) was a true daredevil and this photo is not the craziest thing he did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Supports the claim people were more sensible back then. Today we have moron YouTubers who actually climb such heights without any safety.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Well where else are they going to post it? LiveLeak shut down.