Also known as chief lighting technician, the gaffer plays a significant part in the film industry’s grip and electrical department. Serving as the head of the electrical division, a gaffer’s ...

Once you’re granted permission to help, he said, you can work you way up the various grip and electric positions underneath the gaffer. Work in an equipment rental warehouse It might not be an ...

Second in command, assisting the gaffer or key grip. According to IMDb, "The origin of the term is from 'pre-union' filming days when the line between Grip and Electric departments was less rigid.

“Gaffer”? “Key grip”? “Foley artist”? As the Academy Awards presentation approaches, let’s explore the origins of these strange job titles, which scroll by in movie credits. We’ll ...

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Knox says gaffer may have originated in 19th century theaters where candles were used for lighting and stagehands extinguished them with long-handled gaffs. Grip is self-explanatory, he notes ...

A gaff, of course, is a mistake; does that mean a gaffer is someone responsible for making mistakes? Nice work if you can get it, but can you? And what about the key grip and the best boy?

Ross Lowell, the man who invented gaffer tape, died last month at the ... developments in the field of lightweight lighting and of grip equipment." Lowell's son, Josh, confirmed the filmmaker's ...