Training police with digital actuality has develop into all the fad right here within the 2020s, giving cops an “immersive” expertise with out really having to fireside their weapon. But, imagine it or not, police had been making an attempt simulated firearms coaching lengthy earlier than VR was a factor. And it was all occurring with quaint film movie.

On February 10, 1958 a photographer from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper was invited to shoot images of L.A. law enforcement officials taking goal at a movie projection of fine guys and unhealthy guys—or “celluloid badmen” because the Examiner referred to as it on the time. And, sure, they had been taking pictures reside ammunition on the projection.

Click by for images of the motion, together with what they had been taking a look at in movement image kind. Unfortunately, the bounds of movie pictures from the Nineteen Fifties make it tough to see the motion on the display screen whereas additionally seeing the law enforcement officials taking goal, and vice versa. But it’s nonetheless attention-grabbing to see this very primitive type of an “immerse” expertise taking form within the Nineteen Fifties. And a few of the scenes are sort of unintentionally humorous, given how outlandish they appear.