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[…] But in the meantime I always wanted to be a grip soon as I went. Now watch what guys work. […]

[…] steward in Manchester and get him to agree to that. No, he would have to come out to India to do that. That was the sort of thing. I had to take two grips. I couldn't have a loader. I didn't want two grips. As it happened, we had hired an element from Bombay, and it came with four grips who looked […]

[…]d you've got to know with a crane, with a crane for instance. I was a very good crane operator. I really could work it out and I had a wonderful grip called Dennis, [sorry] Jimmy Dawesnow a lot of people didn’t like Jimmy, especially in the office but I thought he was a great, great grip and we[…]

[…]m getting this through the members. Because what was clear to me, because by then I'd been around all the, you know, I'd become very regular with the grips [technicians], with the sparks [electricians]. The kind of core? Yeah….. RL:  20:39 Yeah. I was going to ask, because there's a r[…]

[…]ort of smooth discipline that used to operate in a good crew. You must know, Sid.Sidney Cole: Oh sure, yes. And, you know, people like a well trained grips and so on - it's absolutely essential. And the old Hollywood thing, of course, always was that the cameraman had his crew which included a gaffe[…]

[…]avid eventually joined the firm he was of course a cameraman full time.Um ...... but assistants, sound recordists and assistants and electricians and grips. (yes, yes) And we would supply them on all sorts of different kinds of assignments. Commercials for example they would book the dolly from us a[…]

[…]the BBC and on ITV, what can we do that’s different. And we decidedthat what British television needed was a longer, more analytical news which got a grip of the idea that television could actually deal with complicated subjects in a serious fashion. The accepted view was that television was essenti[…]

[…]ok much nicer. And so he said, All right, if you want to do that, you know, but he didn't really give me permission to it. So I knew I had a very new grip of secrets. And we're working with technical or heavy camera. And so I said, we're just going to move over that tiny bit. It can't hurt you, beca[…]