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Twilight zone helicopter crash1/5/2023 Various other camera and special effects crew members knew. How many people knew how dangerous the explosives and their placement were? The helicopter pilot Dorcey Wingo did and was angered when an earlier shot featuring explosives endangered his copter. Elaborate precautions were taken, including asking the parents of the children to insist that they and their children were only friends of Folsey visiting the set. If Tice had seen the children that night, he would have shut down the shoot immediately. In fact, House was alarmed to find a fire safety officer on set, Jack Tice, who also sometimes worked as a certified teacher-welfare worker responsible for the safety of children working on the set. Second Assistant Director Anderson House knew. Executive Producer Frank Marshall (working closely with another Executive Producer, Steven Spielberg) certainly knew about the children and signed a check for $2000 to pay the parents $500 per child in cash per each night of filming. How many people involved in the production knew it was illegal to have these children on the set at night? An attempt was made to keep it a secret from anyone at Warner Bros., the studio producing the film, who might have shut down the scene had they learned it. TWILIGHT ZONE HELICOPTER CRASH TRIAL(My short overview relies solely on information from the book, Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and the Twilight Zone Case, by Stephen Farber and Marc Green,1988/Ballantine Books, a detailed account of the accident, its aftermath and the manslaughter trial of those accused.) Both children were reportedly eager to participate, clearly excited at being in a movie. Folsey had been considering other children, but he thought these two might be most suitable for the scene and he brought the children to director John Landis on location a week before the filming of this scene and he’d approved them on the spot. Daniel Le, who thought his son, Myca, might be interested. Harold Schuman, who had called his friend Peter Chen, who recommended his niece, Renee, and put Schuman in touch with his brother Mark Chen. Associate producer George Folsey had done the recruiting, asking for help from a Dr. The parents of the children insisted that they’d never been told there would be explosions and a helicopter in the scene with them and the dangers inherent in such a situation. The children had been recruited for this scene and their parents paid in cash because it was illegal under California law to have children working at night without a special permit. TWILIGHT ZONE HELICOPTER CRASH FULLThe other parents, Kim-Hoa Le, mother of Myca, and Mark Chen, father of Renee, had attended the filming the night before and had to work a full day afterwards, so they opted not to join them the second night when the tragedy occurred. Daniel Le, father of Myca, and Shyan-Huei Chen, mother of Renee. Two of them were on the set that night and watched the horror unfold in front of their eyes. Whenever this tragedy is recalled, usually only Vic Morrow is mentioned, sometimes accompanied by the phrase, “and two children.” The children had names and they had parents who have names also. At 2:20AM, “Action!” was called, the explosions went off and shook the copter so badly that it crashed into the river killing Morrow and the children, a six-year-old girl, Renee Chen, born in Taiwan, and a seven-year-old boy, Myca Dinh Le, the son of parents born in Vietnam. Instead of using a stunt double and two dummies, the director insisted that Morrow film the scene with the two children actually in his arms in a shot that would include the helicopter and the explosions. Actor Vic Morrow was playing a soldier who has to cross a river carrying two Vietnamese orphans in his arms while a helicopter is shooting at him and explosions are going off around him. production being filmed at Indian Dunes, California. Forty years ago, in the early hours of July 23, 1982, a horrible, preventable tragedy occurred on the outdoor set of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE, a Warner Bros.
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