@jennkryst said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:
Much like a pilot checks their fuel levels after the ground crew tells them the plane has been fueled.
The pilot, yes, but not the flight attendant. Everyone has their own job in the pre-flight check.
Here are some more tales from actors and armorers of how things are done on sets that actually bother to follow the safety procedures:
“I don’t recall ever being handed a weapon that was not cleared in front of me — meaning chamber open, barrel shown to me, light flashed inside the barrel to make sure that it’s cleared,” (actor Jeffrey) Wright said. “Clearly, that was a mismanaged set.” (src)
“We open the cylinder and rotate through all six cylinders so you can clearly see that they are empty and that there is no brass inside there,” (pro armorer) Van Sickle said. "The next step in the process is going to the first assistant director, who is the primary safety officer on the set, and allowing them to visually inspect the weapon. At that point, they will call it out to the crew, they will call it out on the radio, that there’s a cold gun on set at that time,” Van Sickle said. “Any member of the crew or the cast that would like to look at that gun and confirm for themselves that it’s empty could do so.” (src - note that they mean look at the gun while the armorer held it for them, not mess around with it on their own)
"Every day I would show him (the actor) the empty firearm, load six dummy cartridges into the chambers so it looked fully loaded to camera, and demonstrate that it was completely safe by pointing it in a safe direction and pulling the trigger eight times." (src)
@jennkryst said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:
Because THEN we can blame Alec Baldwin TWICE for this... once for not insisting on saftey on the production side of things, and then again for fucking around after saftey was not followed.
I have no idea what Baldwin's responsibilities were as producer, whether it was a vanity title or what. It's also unclear whether the violations of safety procedures may have been obvious to him, and what obligation he may have had to speak up. Time will tell what liability he bears.
