Talk:Grip (job)
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With all due respect to the New York Construction Grips, Merging Grip (job) with Construction grip is wrong.
While Grips will assist the construction department with set work during production, they do not participate in the deconstruction of sets. The only thing they will work on is the derigging of lighting grids, flying set pieces, and other rigging related to lighting. The sets themselves are taken down by the construction department.
There may be a title "Contruction Grip" but it does not fall under the Grip department.
With no disrespect to the New York Construction Grips, I think Grip (job) should stay where it is. I live and work in the UK and Grip (job) it fits nicely where it is, and I don't think it would fit in anywhere else.
[edit] dispute merge
- Construction grip is an exclusively new york term and who's responsibility falls under the Swing gang which is part of the Art department. Grips and are generally prohibited by union regulations from touching anything related to set or props as those are the exclusive domain of the Art department. if "Construction grip" needs to be merged with anything, it should be with Swing gang and not Grip (job).
Thanks for the clarification! My father, Gordon Palmer, was a grip for Paramount Studios for 20 years and then worked at Universal Studios before retiring. I never really understood what he did and my mother would joke about how the grips played cards until they were needed. I guess the best part of his job was when he went on location to places like Egypt to work on the movie, "The Ten Commandments" or working with interesting movie stars like Johh "the Duke" Wayne in the movie "Horse Soldiers". For the most part, my father did not speak very favoribly about most of the studio folks with the exception of Danny Kaye who he admired. The oldest of 5 boys, my dad along with his brothers and mother, worked as movie extras in silent movies after moving to California from Kentucky. Over time, my uncles became producers, directors, and a film editor. On my mother's side, her cousin was Joan Leslie, a popular actress in the 1940's - see more about Joan at http://www.geocities.com/cathyjpalmer/Hollywood.html?1137879375540.
