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Cecil Kellogg

The Daredevils of Hollywood · July 15, 1938 · 12 min · 2,006 words

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Introducing Air double top Hollywood all right George ready for your scene All you do is fall backward off this ladder and go to that skylight down there, okay? You're playing a bank robber trying to get away from the cops They're chasing you across the top of these buildings when you get to this ladder

They shoot you fall off backwards now get the idea that all yeah, let's take it all right everybody Here we go Fire, please! Fire everybody! Roll him. Got the action. There he goes, running like a quarterback.

He's on the ladder. Okay, kill for the guncraft. He's losing his balance. There he goes. From Hollywood, the motion picture capital of the world, we bring you the thrilling, true-life experiences of those men behind the scene.

Those daring, unsung heroes whose breathtaking adventures on the screen have thrilled millions. Whose daily jobs bring them face to face with death? Those men who comprise the strangest fraternity on Earth. The Suicide Squad. The movie Stuntman. The dead apples of Hollywood.

Ladies and gentlemen, in presenting this copyrighted radio feature, we are again privileged to have as our guest one of the leading stuntman of Hollywood, Cecil Kellogg. It is through his cooperation that we are able to reenact some of the highlights of his dangerous profession.

The thrilling scenes you are about to hear are his own actual experiences. Cecil Kellogg is here in the studio now, and later in the program we will bring him to the microphone. But first, we invite you to witness a routine day in the life of this courageous young man.

It is early morning, on a day in the summer of 1933. Universal studios have set up a complete location unit on a sandy country road near Palm Dale, California. Besides the cameras, reflectors and other movie making equipment, one large speedy say at an automobile and a single-muted bombing plane are being prepared for their participation

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