Cinema Stunts

Today I read 'CINEMA STUNTS'. This book shows how stunts in film begin. The first film-makers before 1900 often made films of circus acts. In this way they were able to show their circus to many more people than ever before. In films, stunt-men perform various extreme acts such as shooting on trees on a train, holding on to the hand of a big click, and so on. Many people went to the cinema to see them. But it's inevitable that the more stunt films people produce the many people get serious accidents.

'He was in hospital for a long time. In the end he lost his leg.'
 Because of an accident after filming the scene on fighting on the train on above, however survived, a stunt-man had to cut his leg.

'Many early film stars were women'
 In my image, real stunt demands harsh and tough actions, therefore I was thinking it's usual that male stunt-men could easily be a star. But the real was the opposite.

'The water killed three people in front of the cameras.'
 I'm astonished that even water can kill people.

     In the beginning, most stunts seem to have been done by only humans. Of course, they caused many accidents in actors and actresses. Not only humans, gradually animals began to be used for stunts, however, the way of using animals for filming, especially horses, were seriously cruel. They killed thousands of horses which had damaged their legs because of humans. That can't be allowed today.
     Through such history, they came up with many ways to make a showy and attractive action movie in safer way. For example, glass made by sugar reduced stunt-men's injury.
     This book is very interesting and good to know the history of stunt!!