December 18, 1976 (12 pages)

Television A good year for TV stuntman _ By MIKE GOODKIND Associated Press Writer SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A television producer and his director met once again for a late-evening script conference. Said the producer, a bit incredulously: ‘‘You’ve got it Stinson on its left side as planned. Tallman, 57, planned and flew the crash scene in a heavily padded cockpit, as he has planned and flown so many stunt flights for movies and television. “The crashes are part of the here so the plane carrying the _ business. I don’t ever look for prisoners crashes between two _them,’’ says Tallman, who has trees. Both wings explode as been doing this sort of thing for they are cleanly sheared off by years. ‘My stunt flying busithe foliage. Then the plane ness has almost doubled this careens into the ground at 60 year.” miles an hour. First it flips up It’s also a good year for the onto its nose and then flops over — spewing glass and steel all over the place — onto its left side so the prisoners can men who stunt drive cars for: television. Planes and cars, in ; fact, are an alternative to sex and violence on the screen, climb out the right door.” about which there is so much J controversy. ‘‘That’s the way we’re gonna “You've still got to have exshoot it,” said the director. citement,” Tallman. And that’s the way it was Tallman’s own _ script shot two months ago for an started with a pilot’s license at episode of “‘Spencer’s Pilots,” age 16, a bit. of a CBS television series (soon to be.canceled) about flying adventures during World War II. The legendary Frank’ Tallman, probably the nation’s leading stunt pilot, ~ was at the controls. the wings to shear off cleanly when they struck the trees, and some footwork with the and then a stint with the Air Force in World War II. He is a: high school dropout ‘because; flying for me was easier than! going to school.” Now besides his flying, he also heads Tallmantz: Aviation, which rents planes, : services helicopters and sells aviation gasoline — mostly for ' owns aren’t on location, they’re displayed for the public at Tallmantz’ Orange County Airport headquarters. About 100 pilots fly scenes of varying danger on camera, and Tallman employs six of them. But he does the really harrowing scenes himself. “I’ve had more experience in this than anyone else in the world,’’ says Tallman in the same soft-spoken voice he uses to describe his valuable antique collection. 2s In recent years, if you’ve seen a flying sequence, like the flight through a billboard in the movie ‘‘Mad, Mad, Mad, World,” Tallman probably did it. In a recent NBC special on the life of Amelia Earhart, it’s Tallman at the stick when the landing gear on the female flyer’s plane caves in. And he’s there again when Miss Earhart crashes into a field with her instructor. For that scene, Tallman flipped the plane on its back. “I’d much prefer to do something other than put something on its back . You get a godawful jolt. Every bone in your body just gives. It’s «. "No plane stops dead and flips. The G-loads (gravity) are enormous.” : For a crash, Tallman’s fee ranges from $2,500 to $10,000. That’s a small part of his “‘six figure contracts’ for providing plane rentals, flight service, maintenance and pilots to TV producers. Tallman has been injured several times. He went to the hospital for three weeks two years ago after crashing a World War I plane he was flying for the movie “The Great Waldo Pepper.” ; “In 40 years of somewhat dangerous work, the law of averages takes its toll, and those are the things you swallow,”he said. , Tallman limps. His left leg was amputated in 1965 after he was struck by his son’s runaway go-cart. “You're almost. as good as. you once were, because you’re more cautious,’”’ says Tallman, who is once again qualified to fly virtually every type of plane except spacecraft and the really huge commercial jets. Stuntmen have “an inborn’ sense of timing that I don’t’ have any idea how-you tell Nevada County Nagget — Ssterday, December 18, 1976 — Page 3 Make your own belt BUCKLES a & Choose from 4 styles of solid brass buckle blanks with matching leather inserts. Assorted stamping tool designs. You might want to inlay the buckle blanks with exotic woods, stones, resins or any number of things. The possibilities are unlimited. Solid Brass Buckle Blanks .. 4.25 £0. Pre-Cut Leather Inserts .. 45¢£o: Stamping Tools ...+2.75 £0. ES : \ * 10069 Jeerschke Or. Weekdays ‘til 6 Pa. 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Television A good year for TV stuntman _ By MIKE GOODKIND Associated Press Writer SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A television producer and his director met once again for a late-evening script conference. Said the producer, a bit incredulously: ‘‘You’ve got it Stinson on its left side as planned. Tallman, 57, planned and flew the crash scene in a heavily padded cockpit, as he has planned and flown so many stunt flights for movies and television. “The crashes are part of the here so the plane carrying the _ business. I don’t ever look for prisoners crashes between two _them,’’ says Tallman, who has trees. Both wings explode as been doing this sort of thing for they are cleanly sheared off by years. ‘My stunt flying busithe foliage. Then the plane ness has almost doubled this careens into the ground at 60 year.” miles an hour. First it flips up It’s also a good year for the onto its nose and then flops over — spewing glass and steel all over the place — onto its left side so the prisoners can men who stunt drive cars for: television. Planes and cars, in ; fact, are an alternative to sex and violence on the screen, climb out the right door.” about which there is so much J controversy. ‘‘That’s the way we’re gonna “You've still got to have exshoot it,” said the director. citement,” Tallman. And that’s the way it was Tallman’s own _ script shot two months ago for an started with a pilot’s license at episode of “‘Spencer’s Pilots,” age 16, a bit. of a CBS television series (soon to be.canceled) about flying adventures during World War II. The legendary Frank’ Tallman, probably the nation’s leading stunt pilot, ~ was at the controls. the wings to shear off cleanly when they struck the trees, and some footwork with the and then a stint with the Air Force in World War II. He is a: high school dropout ‘because; flying for me was easier than! going to school.” Now besides his flying, he also heads Tallmantz: Aviation, which rents planes, : services helicopters and sells aviation gasoline — mostly for ' owns aren’t on location, they’re displayed for the public at Tallmantz’ Orange County Airport headquarters. About 100 pilots fly scenes of varying danger on camera, and Tallman employs six of them. But he does the really harrowing scenes himself. “I’ve had more experience in this than anyone else in the world,’’ says Tallman in the same soft-spoken voice he uses to describe his valuable antique collection. 2s In recent years, if you’ve seen a flying sequence, like the flight through a billboard in the movie ‘‘Mad, Mad, Mad, World,” Tallman probably did it. In a recent NBC special on the life of Amelia Earhart, it’s Tallman at the stick when the landing gear on the female flyer’s plane caves in. And he’s there again when Miss Earhart crashes into a field with her instructor. For that scene, Tallman flipped the plane on its back. “I’d much prefer to do something other than put something on its back .. You get a godawful jolt. Every bone in your body just gives. It’s «. "No plane stops dead and flips. The G-loads (gravity) are enormous.” : For a crash, Tallman’s fee ranges from $2,500 to $10,000. That’s a small part of his “‘six figure contracts’ for providing plane rentals, flight service, maintenance and pilots to TV producers. Tallman has been injured several times. He went to the hospital for three weeks two years ago after crashing a World War I plane he was flying for the movie “The Great Waldo Pepper.” ; “In 40 years of somewhat dangerous work, the law of averages takes its toll, and those are the things you swallow,”he said. , Tallman limps. His left leg was amputated in 1965 after he was struck by his son’s runaway go-cart. “You're almost. as good as. you once were, because you’re more cautious,’”’ says Tallman, who is once again qualified to fly virtually every type of plane except spacecraft and the really huge commercial jets. Stuntmen have “an inborn’ sense of timing that I don’t’ have any idea how-you tell Nevada County Nagget — Ssterday, December 18, 1976 — Page 3

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