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number of people drawing them that is throttling the production business. Here is a list of the technicians engaged in one unit of a modern studio. The names are omitted : —
Producer, associate producer, production supervisor, studio manager, unit production manager, director, second director, first assistant director, second assistant director, third assistant director, continuity, assistant continuity, lighting camera-man, camera operator, camera focus, camera loader, clappers, art director, assistant art director, set dresser, sound supervisor, sound mixer, sound camera, boom operator, assistant boom operator, editor, assistant editor, make-up supervisor, assistant make-up, hairdressing supervisor, hairdressing assistant, wardrobe supervisor, wardrobe master, wardrobe assistant, wardrobe mistress, wardrobe assistant mistress, chief electrician, floor electrician, property master, floor props, assistant floor props, construction manager, stand-by carpenter, stand-by stage hand, stand-by rigger, stand-by painter, stand-by plasterer, stand-by rigger (grips) !
'So all fleas have lesser fleas upon their backs to bite 'em.5 We mustn't, however, blame the fleas; they are the products of a system which they have done nothing to create. Consider the case of a thoroughly competent camera-man — used to the job from his boyhood. Suppose he is engaged by a modern studio and is told he will have for assistants, a camera loader, a camera unloader, a camera operator and a man to focus the camera for him. You could not expect him to say, 'Oh, rubbish! I can do all those things myself and then have time on my hands.'
Go into any studio you like, anywhere, and you will find twenty to thirty people standing about in the set, apparently doing nothing; and you will more often find, to your sorrow, that the studio is empty — lifeless and cold.
But this consideration of latter-day studio conditions is very far ahead of my proper chronological position, from which I was lured by taking three law cases together although they were really several years apart. The last one led me naturally to consider how modern conditions might have been modified if that case had ended differently. I dislike law cases intensely and I thank my generally cheerful guardian angel that there are no more to be recounted. Now I must get back to the time when Stanley Faithfull had only recently joined the staff.
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