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[…] crew nowadays I suppose who is referred to as the grip. Eric Cross: The grip. We never had anybody like […]
[…] It made all that much easier, it was terrific. It was terrific. DB: You had Johnny Austin, I seem to remember? PB-C: Johhny Austin was the Grip. DB: The Grip, yes. I knew him as a scene shifter prior to that! PB-C: Really. And we had two electricians. DB: Ah. 25 mins&n[…]
[…] Diane Tams was the camera woman pregnant with triplets at the time. There's an image of her on a on a dolly like this, being pushed up and down by a grip, who was man, because there weren't any women grips. And but the rest of the roles were pretty, pretty much filled by women.Mike Dick 51:46[…]
[…] to a number of people who were able to cut their teeth with somebody else's name on their work because they weren't they hadn't actually been to the grips upgraded officially that's for that's really it isn't that.SPEAKER: M5Yeah well I think a lot of us did that and those that even I certainly cut[…]
[…]e was a lot to be grabbed and loaded in a typical way. Yes. Yes. The central loader to I've worked woth central loaders, which is which is many grip skills because much of the gear we use is so enormousManny Yospa 29:28 unit seemed large. And when it comes to location, see hu[…]
[…] you do two language versions?Rodney Giesler: Yes. Arabic and English. My assistant did all the Arabic commentary writing. We had a couple of Bedouin grips. They soon learned the names of all the gear: tripods, legs. "Rijl" is leg in Arabic. "Rijlane" two legs. Although it was a tripod they still ca[…]
[…] driver.00:45:35 – 00:48:00 After 6 months back on the buses, he met a friend [Ernest Steward?] who worked at Southall Studios; started out as camera grip/operator.Side 200:00:00 – 00:04:30 LH continues a conversation started during the interval (mentions being a prop man at Pinewood and an unnamed […]
[…] know. But he used to be, as I say, sometimes he was quite nice to me, but no, I never got close to him at all. Didn’t feel that I ever got really to grips with him as a person. I helped out on Red Shoes for a bit, for a time in the cutting room, and that sort of thing, you know. [pause] And I, I ad[…]