This MGM short ran in theaters with a feature film in 1950. I saw it last on a DVD with the comedy musical, "Two Weeks with Love."
The film is eight minutes and runs like a newsreel, from which several video clips are shown. Pete Smith narrates as it shows various unusual, risky, comical or daredevil feats that different people had done or were trying. Some might leave many people wondering if the performer wasn't off his rocker - or had all his marbles, so to speak.
These weren't all crashes, so I think the title referred to unusual and odd things some people might do to try to crash into moving pictures. These folks made newsreels, evidently. The most interesting clips to me were the human projectile - a guy being shot out of a cannon; and a water skier holding a glider and trying to go aloft while being pulled by a boat.
The craziest one has to be a guy wearing some sort of special pants, riding and holding onto the back of a speeding car, and then lowering himself and letting go so that he slides on his bottom until coming to a stop. The car had to be going at least 30 and maybe 40 miles per hour. He survived it and apparently wasn't hurt, but I wonder if he hadn't lost some of his marbles.
These weren't all crashes, so I think the title referred to unusual and odd things some people might do to try to crash into moving pictures. These folks made newsreels, evidently. The most interesting clips to me were the human projectile - a guy being shot out of a cannon; and a water skier holding a glider and trying to go aloft while being pulled by a boat.
The craziest one has to be a guy wearing some sort of special pants, riding and holding onto the back of a speeding car, and then lowering himself and letting go so that he slides on his bottom until coming to a stop. The car had to be going at least 30 and maybe 40 miles per hour. He survived it and apparently wasn't hurt, but I wonder if he hadn't lost some of his marbles.