This is a genuine video of a woman surviving an explosion, but it has little to do with football or safety tests.
This clip actually shows Helen Howe, a stunt performer known as the"dynamite girl," surviving the detonation of five sticks of dynamite in 1948. and British Movietone,"one of the world's most comprehensive newsreel archives," digitized more than 1 million minutes of old news footage. This piece of footage from May 1948 shows a portion of a daredevil show by"Jimmie Lynch and His Death Dodgers" at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
The original clip can be viewed below, as well as a transcription of the announcer's description of Howe's act: Now meet Miss Helen Howe of red Indian descent. In Birmingham, Alabama, she proves its quite possible to be blown out of a cardboard box by dynamite and survive. Very useful in these explosive times. 5 sticks of dynamite are used, so they say. Is she damaged? It looks like it at first. But there's really no cause for alarm. Helen's alright. She evidently thrives on concussion.
The Muncie Evening Press profiled Howe in August 1947. While Howe joked that the hardest part of her job was the traveling, her line of work occasionally led to some serious injuries. The Evening Press reported that Howe was once confined to a wheelchair for six weeks after suffering serious injuries during a stunt:
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