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Gun and hot gun. a cold gun means that the gun is empty. it cannot fire. there might be dummies in it. but it cannot go bang. a hot gun means that it is ready to fire with blanks loaded up into the gun, and those callouts happen just before and after each one of the sequences on set. >> so a hot gun blank isn't necessarily dangerous if it is used right but it's still a hot gun because something can go bang in the gun. >> that is correct. >> my friend anderson has a couple questions for you also. >> larry, even if it is a dummy round as you said, it's -- there is no projectile coming out but it...

Flash. >> so, sorry, i used the wrong terminology. if it's the blanch blank cartridge, the smoke and the muzzle flash. i mean, if someone's holding that up to their head or in close proximity, that is something that they would avoid doing? >> sure. in the -- the safety guidelines, it clearly states that minimum safety distance in front of a muzzle of a blank firearm is 20 feet. so, you should never have that situation where a full-flash blank is being pressed up against someone's exposed skin or anything like that. there is, again, a little bit of a flash, a little bit of smoke and stuff comin...

This is pretty much what they would be using on the rookie. this works and functions just like the real weapons do. insert a magazine. slide it. and fire it. in postproduction, they would be able to do the muzzle flash. they would be able to do the smoke. they would be able to do the ejecting shell from the firearm. so, theoretically, no, you do not need to use blanks. it adds an aesthetic to it, and it assists the actor in performing. but if you work with the actor for a little bit ahead of time, you can get the wrist motion in to synchronize with the bang that these gas guns do make. >> all ...

Armchair quarterback something like this but obviously a live round was fired and if a live round was fired out of that weapon, then obviously it had to be introduced on the set somehow and there are multitude of safety protocols to prevent that from ever occurring. there shouldn't be but two types of rounds on a set at any given time that is a blank round. >> can you show us? >> sure. absolutely. this is a blank round. and this is what one looks like. it has a crimped top and it has gun powder in it and this would probably be about the size of the caliber that was used on a period piece, a we...

Lot of guns are fired, on the mayor of east town they decided that every fine of every gun would be all cgi, it was all special effects. they didn't use prop guns loaded with blanks. they maybe lost the authentic recoil, and alive muzzle flash that they would've cut from using plants, but they decided that it wasn't worth the risk. they added in all of that after the facts, and a lot of productions do that now. but, a lot of movie and tv says study do use real sets. the prague massacre will annals all the props, if there are guns been used, that person can sometimes be assisted by and it's a s...