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Prop windows are broken from sugar resin

Fake glass shatters into blunt shards instead of cutting the actor Breakaway glass is cast from sugar, gypsum or a resin mix in moulds shaped like panes and bottles. It looks like glass on camera but breaks with far less force and crumbles rather than slicing. Rain and damp soften sugar versions, so resin is used outdoors. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Fake glass shatters into blunt shards instead of cutting the actor. The figure is taken from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.