How come when somebody is shot with a bullety in WW2 movies, games or documentaries, there 's burst of powder?

Question

Is it to do with the weapons used? Or the uniforms?
What is the powder?

Answer 1

For the movies, it's the type of visuals placed between the squib and the camera. When the squib goes off, it blows up the package and you get to see what's inside the squib. They are trying to be dramatic showing the guy has been hit. Those images are carried over in the video games.

As far as powder in the domumentaries, it depends if what you saw was real or fake. Documentaries, especially old ones, are knowned for splicing in old fake movies to show what it was like. So what you think is real footage, is really from a fake movie. They also do reinactments, which again what you are seeing is the package contents in front of the squib.

The dust in the Kenedy assassination film was actually his brains, blood and other parts of his head. I've shot animals and have never seen anything spray toward me like the movies. It has always been exit matter.

Answer 2

It's the squib used to simulate a gunshot. The squib is a very small bursting charge, sometimes with a 'blood' pack.

Answer 3

You need to get your head out of movies and video games.

Answer 4

It's just "dust" from the clothes resulting from impact of the bullet as it hits it's "victim"....

Answer 5

Dirty clothes......there's no "Time out Sarge, I gotta do laundry!!!!" Or it could be from squibs.