Subj : Alec Baldwin SHOOTS DEAD
To   : Mike Powell
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Oct 23 2021 10:43 pm

Hi Mike,
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MP> > A cinematographer has died after being shot on set with a prop gun by Alec Bal
MP> > in while filming a Western in New Mexico, passing away later in hospital, whil
MP> > the director was left injured in the incident.
MP> I have wondered how the off-screen personnel were in the line of fire, even
MP> if it was a prop gun supposedly loaded with a blank?  I was always taught
MP> never to point any loaded, unloaded, or loaded-with-blanks gun at a person.
MP> Sounds like someone was standing where they should not have been. :(

I've seen films where the gunman would appear to be shooting directly at the camera. Maybe that's the effect that they were trying to achieve here?

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