[…] working outside the BBC. Was there any difference? Would you have an operator?Speaker 1 33:50 Oh a full crew. An operator clapper loader grips people like that and add the best. I worked with some very good peopleUnknown Speaker 34:07 yes, let's have a quick break.Unknown Sp[…]
[…]o the scene, I think, in the mid-‘80s in its earliest form. It replaced a system which I think was Rank’s own idea called Top-C which I didn’t get to grips with at all but it was around in my early days, when I wasn’t allowed to touch that kind of thing, but the one thing I remember at the Top-C con[…]
[…]would pick up more of that. For some reason they seemed to be more susceptible on the DI stuff than they were on others. But no one ever quite got to grips with it. Some features were perfect and some features showed it more than others. Many argued that it was the type of material being shot, that […]
[…], because Thomson's response to anybody wanting more money was to say no and threaten to try to take what money they had off them so the Unions got a grip quite early on and they divided in to all sorts of quite tight groups covering either Production people or joiners, say, scene people, builders, […]
[…]d horrendous problems when they got there, even though I specified everything down to the last one.Unknown Speaker 50:00 Nail. The pistol grips for theUnknown Speaker 50:03 microphones had a different screw threat to the microphone stands. They got in from two different hirin[…]
[…]camera was destroyed the cameras Oh, yes, smash was technical Academy. I mean, it was it fell off, you know, the, from the roof of a studio on to the grip, but it's so marvellous, it didn't hit anybody. We don't literally kill them. I mean, it's, it's like a it's the size of a grand piano but about […]
[…]s no exact parallel to what you said.Derek Threadgall 31:04 Exactly. Don't patronise me. But I used to be with the Writers Guild, a great grip, years ago, and we had a subcommittee. Jonah's chair, we used to go to the pub after our meetings, and we had on the committee, one girl, lovely […]
[…]t in themorning and you never knew whether you were going to get home before the next day at 8am. (TIME 44.00) And that was bad enough for us but for grips and electricians having to go to the next job up north, or Make-up driving home and leaving at dawn, it was not safe but a lot of money. And, yo[…]
[…]ime?Howard Lanning 2:30 Very much. So my mom, my father was came in, in industry in 1925. At the end of the silent era, he was a he was a grip. And he was also a property man. And he had four sons. I was one of them. And we were all involved in in the film industry. He the eldest one was[…]
[…]royed at the end of the film. There’s just, just nothing of them. But, I got more and more people like you know the plasterers, the electricians, the grips, they were always coming in and out, because I mean they are part of MGM crew. And they were, actually, you had to sign that you never spoke to […]
