Douglas Slocombe

[…]d, and last, but not least, I would say also Robin, who had everything from, you know, he was at one foot too, with people coming out of the fact the grips and everything, the grips pulling this exactly I mean, Manning, Colin Manning, who was our grip, you know, Cowell would have to, you know, drag […]

A A (Tubby) Englander

[…]ned mobile unit. And we worked off four vehicles, no three vehicles sorry. Three vehicles and we had the complete unit - electricians, sound, camera, grips - one grip actually, and we took our dollies with us and our tracks so that we were completely mobile. And it was a fascinating production it re[…]

billywilliamsbectu-tape2

[…] is doing his job of putting things together with the grip and so on and making all the adjustments to […]

Erwin Hillier

[…]nessman, something I never come across again to have both those qualities, because, you know, you had Winston church under contract, and Sir staff at grips, many other important people who all came into his sort of orbit, and he mixed with society, and also he persuaded the Prudential insurance comp[…]

Lionel Banes

[…]cope, apart from the boom. They'd often tie a microphone in a hidden thing on a table and cope with it in Yes, what was the crew then? Did you have a grips as a member of the crew? Was it? Yes,Unknown Speaker  19:43  not a not in my first year or two,Unknown Speaker  19:48  but a[…]

Eric Cross

[…]ere one chap loaded for all of the productions that were on.Arthur Graham: You have a member of the crew nowadays I suppose who is referred to as the grip.Eric Cross: The grip. We never had anybody like that, we had to carry our own cameras in the early days. The assistant and the cameraman carried […]
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