TFB Poll: What Women Used for Protection in 1952
Watch the below video then vote.
It is all fun and games until someone gets hurt!
Thanks to Jeff for finding the video.
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Shouldn’t her hands get cut by flying pieces of shrapnel as the bullets fragment on the plexiglass/whatever it is?
what were THEY smoking?!?!??!?!?
Quite free from the ravages of intelligence…
gaaahhhh!!!
I knew a woman who worked for a bullet proof vest company in the 60s while paying for college. She would go to trade shows and be “shot” by a 38 spl pistol while wearing a vest. She said it was a great demonstration and sold lots of vests. She also trusted the shooter (obviously). I don’t think I’d ever take that risk…
It appears as if they’re shooting it with a .22, but non the less, it seems to force the glass back after every shot and hit her in the head. To the shooter’s credit, it does not appear that he is aiming directly at her head, but very simply, this is the dumbest shooting demonstration I’ve ever seen.
“Our bullet proof glass is so strong it even keeps stupid people from getting shot in the head by a .22! Sometimes…”
“non the less”? Crap!
I’ve got to say the woman for the simple fact that she’s the one being shot at.
This looks like the work of the late Myron “Mike” Gittinger, who, after a thrilling career as a newsreel stringer and slapstick producer of “bullet-proof glass” gags, became the technical photographer at the Erie Ordnance Depot next door to Camp Perry. He was a pioneer of stop-action lighting, and famously captured an artillery shell leaving the barrel.
A short sample of his work, including the timeless “Rocket Skates,” is at
http://tinyurl.com/l584nw.
Or, if that link is dead, key “Stringer” into YouTube.
Do not laugh to this woman! She is having medal of Hero of Revolution for her glorious movy work!