paulsc@tekecs.UUCP (06/27/83)
What is a Key Grip? Paul H. Scherf P. O. Box 1000 Del. Sta. 61-201 Tektronix Engineering Computing Systems Wilsonville, Oregon, USA UUCP: ...!XXX!teklabs!tekecs!paulsc (where XXX is one of: aat cbosg chico decvax harpo ihnss lbl-unix ogcvax pur-ee reed ssc-vax ucbvax zehntel) CSNET: tekecs!paulsc @ tektronix ARPA: tekecs!paulsc.tektronix @ rand-relay
davido@tekid.UUCP (06/28/83)
In-Real-Life: David H. Olson @ Tektronix, Instrument Division ---------- The Key Grip is the head person in charge of the lighting. Since the main light is called the Key light and is the one on the "Star" of the flick, the grip or lighting crew head is called the Key Grip. His assistant (if I can remember the order correctly) is the Gaffer from whence comes the term Gaffer's tape by which movie and still photographers refer to duct tape. Third person on the totem pole is the Best Boy.
alb@alice.UUCP (06/28/83)
A grip is a stage hand, e.g. someone who moves props and scenary around. A key grip is probably some sort of don of the grips.
cfv@packet.UUCP (06/28/83)
I grip is a person whose job is moving and setting the lighting equiptment.
The key grip is the grip foreman.
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(chuqui@mit-mc) <- obsolete!bsw@cbosgd.UUCP (06/28/83)
Now that I think of it, What is a gaffer ? (if this has come up before, sorry, I just re-started reading this newsgroup.) Ben Walls cbosgd!bsw
starner@psuvax.UUCP (06/29/83)
In movie lingo a "Key Grip" is the person who is the
main person (hence "key") in charge of hanging the lighting
instruments from the light grid (hence "grip").
Mark Starner
Penn State University
{allegra,burdvax}!psuvax!starnerleimkuhl@uiuccsb.UUCP (06/30/83)
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uiuccsb!leimkuhl Jun 29 11:44:00 1983
wrong. The key grip is the guy who makes sure all the details
are taken care of. For example, if an actor is smoking a cigarette
in a pair of short back-to-back scenes, the Key Grip makes certain
that the cigarette doesn't get longer in the following scene.dab@iedl02.UUCP (06/30/83)
References: tekecs.1503 The person who adjusts the lights, I believe.
cfv@packet.UUCP (06/30/83)
I believe that you will find that while a grip is a lighting man a gaffer
is one of the people who handle stringing things from the ceiling like the
false roofs and the catwalks that the grips use.
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(chuqui@mit-mc) <- obsolete!msc@qubix.UUCP (07/01/83)
What you describe is the person credited with "continuity". I suspect the
key grip is a lighting perosn as the majority of other responses have
suggested.
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decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPAcfv@packet.UUCP (07/03/83)
The person who makes sure that things don't change from scene to scene isn't
the key grip, it is the continuity controller (I forget exactly what the
title is, but every screen credit will have at least one 'Continuity ...' on
it...
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(chuqui@mit-mc) <- obsolete!starner@psuvax.UUCP (07/03/83)
the person who makes sure that there aren't problems with
(such as was said here - a cigarette longer in one scene than
another) is the Continuity person and the Assistant Director.
Mark Starner
Penn State University
{allegra,burdvax}!psuvax!starnerdavew@tekecs.UUCP (07/05/83)
I can't keep quiet any longer! A key grip is in charge of rigging sets and lighting. The person in charge of seeing that details in a scene flow together in a proper manner is said to be in charge of continuity. So There!
bernie@watarts.UUCP (07/08/83)
Wrong again... you're confusing "Key Grip" with "continuity".
julian@osu-dbs.UUCP (07/19/83)
That's wrong also. A "grip" is a stagehand, someone who moves things around, like lights or scenery. A key grip is in charge of the grips. Scene to scene continuity is handled by a person who is dedicated to that very important task.