REALISM IN FILMS.
V.C. ACTOR BADLY INJURED RECOVERS £675. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Nov: 20. In the Court of King’s Bench, the Australian Victoria Cross winner, Lieutenant Leonard Keysor, sued the film, producer G. B. Samuelson for damages for njuries received in filming a reenactment of the Gallipoli bombing episode for which the plaintiff was decorated. He was awarded £675 damages. The plaintiff’s ease was that in consideration of £75 weekly he went to the studio at Islewortli. Smoke bombs and gunpowder were used in the reproduction of the trench scene. He alleges that the bombs were carelessly thrown and the electrical discharge of the gunpowder faulty, with the result that a bomb and also gunpowder exploded in his face and fractured his jaw. A hundred incised 1 wounds were loft in his forearm and fifty wounds in his knee. He was confined to bed for five and ahalf weeks, and his jaw, despite operations, was permanently disfigured.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 November 1928, Page 8
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