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: The gaffer is the head of the Electrical Department, responsible for the design and execution of the electrical distribution and lighting plan for a production.
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One variation is gaffer tape designed to be cleanly removed, while duct tape was not.
A more specialized product, commonly known as gaffer tape, is preferred by gaffers in the motion picture and television industries, as it does not leave a sticky residue when removed.
Hopper said all the outdoor shooting was an intentional choice on his part, because " God is a great gaffer.
It is named for the gaffer, the head of the lighting department on a film crew.
The most common use for gaffer tape is securing cables to the stage floor or other surface, either for safety or to keep them out of view of the audience or camera.
Similarly, a narrow version of gaffer tape, called spike tape, is used in theatre productions for floor layout.
A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glassmith, or gaffer.
The placement of lighting instruments and the power distribution to deliver electricity is handled by the electricians who work under a gaffer.
During shooting, the best boy may also cover for the key grip or gaffer when he / she is on break or otherwise away from set.
As the gaffer is sometimes credited as the chief lighting technician, the best boy electric is sometimes credited as the assistant chief lighting technician.
A swing keel lifted halfway is the perfect treatment for weather helm on a gaffer. The usual adjustments to mast rake, or even bowsprit length may be made to a gaffer with persistent heavy weather ( or lee ) helm.
On a film the head electrician is credited as the gaffer and the assistant as the best boy, regardless of gender.
The weapon is then covered with either tape ( such as kite tape, gaffer tape, etc.
Michael Jackson ( born November 8, 1970 ) is a Canadian actor, grip and gaffer, best known for his acting role as " Trevor " in the comedy TV series Trailer Park Boys ( 2001 – 2006 ) and the later film Trailer Park Boys: The Movie ( 2006 ).
In colloquial British English gaffer means a foreman, and is used as a synonym for " boss ".
* In glassblowing, a gaffer is the central figure in the creation of a piece of art.
For example, At the Corning Glass Works in Corning, New York, a gaffer is a skilled artisan who blows through a long tube to shape molten glass into a variety of useful and / or artistic objects.
Instead, a common location for field dressings is the left shoulder-strap of the webbing, either held in place with gaffer tape or contained in a small pouch that is not issued but can be purchased from several civilian suppliers.
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They can be muted by laying a small piece of cloth ( or in a pinch, a credit card, adhesive bandages, or even sanitary napkins and duct or gaffer tape for larger drums ) over their skin resulting in a muffled sound, but there are also specialized adhesive cloth mutes that stick to the head of the drum.
In 16th century English a " gaffer " was a man who was the head of any organized group of labourers.
2 June 2010 According to a number of reports from Turkey, experienced gaffer Denizli has resigned as head coach of Süper Lig titans Beşiktaş due to medical reasons.
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Yellow gaffer tape used for marking a Film_crew # Camera | camera department remote on a film set
In the absence of console tape or artist tape, live sound engineers may use a strip of white gaffer tape along the bottom of a mixing board, to label the channels used for a particular show ; although PVC tape ( AKA electrical tape ) will come away more cleanly from a mixing desk.
In the early days of film, the key grip would ask the gaffer, " can I borrow your best boy for an hour?
He played Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop, and lent his voice to a number of animated characters, including the " gaffer " of the " Tetley Tea Folk " in a long-running series of television advertisements for Tetley tea and as the voice behind the slogan, ' Bread with nowt taken out ' for Allinson's bakery.
When Benjamin Henry died in 1924, Basil Blackwell took over from his father, running the firm, with the nickname " gaffer " for over sixty years.
He then placed driver Ken Miles in the car, and using scrap wood and gaffer tape, designed the windscreen-the first component to be manufactured for the car.
Mihajlović, for his part, still played the left back position under the new gaffer, which the player wasn't personally happy with.
The instant success of Lawrie Dunn sparked calls for the gaffer to be knighted.
At the show he met director of photography and gaffer Tony Nakonechnyj, and supplied him with balloons for " Disturbing the Peace ".
In 2005, Sourcemaker developed the first helium-filled, floating metal halide lighting balloon for gaffer John Velez and director of photography Matthew Libatique on the feature Inside Man.
In 2008 Sourcemaker mixed tungsten and metal halide in the same lighting balloon for gaffer Mike Bauman on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
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On films with very small crews, the electric ( lighting ) department often consists of only a gaffer, a best boy, and a few electricians.
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Newton-John met gaffer / cameraman Patrick McDermott a year after her 1995 divorce from Matt Lattanzi.
Among them are: Yellowhammer, clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird.
They are assistants to their department heads, the gaffer and the key grip, respectively.
Among her memories of Hollywood are a less-than-subtle attempt by Darryl Zanuck to get her on his casting couch, and being called " You German pig " on her first day on the set of Major Dundee by a gaffer whose wife had lost her family in Auschwitz.
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It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.
It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.
This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;
Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.
The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??
`` That is undoubtedly a hell of a quote '', said the writer, scratching his head.
At the head of the CDC is an unorthodox, 39-year-old amateur politico, Thomas B. Carvey Jr., whose normal profession is helping develop Hughes Aircraft's moon missiles.
The words ran crazily in his head: Mollie the Mutton is scratching her nose in the rain.
When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.
To measure the volume of one of the combustion chambers in the cylinder head, install the valves and spark plug in the chamber and support the head so that its gasket surface is level.
This volume is added to the total volume of the combustion chamber and head gasket opening.
The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.
While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.
A head is a handy thing to have and I installed one under a removable section of the port bunk.
The sink in the hinged panel above the bunk drains into the head and a five-gallon water tank is mounted on the bulkhead above the sink.
The drill press consists of a vertical shaft ( spindle ) which is tapered or threaded on one end to hold a drill chuck, a tubular housing ( quill ) in which the spindle is mounted, a head in which the quill is mounted, a feed lever which moves the quill up or down, a power source, and a movable table upon which the work is placed.
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