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key grip
noun
The head of the grip department, involved with lighting and camera movement.
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My brother was key grip.
The key grip is, of course, the head un-electrician.
Beaupre's aim now is to become a key grip.
Got home around 8am. Clarke went for 18 holes of golf with Rodney, the key grip.
Survivors include his son, J. Patrick Daily, a motion-picture key grip, of Lamy, N.M.
On a movie set "we control anything over people's heads," one female key grip explains.
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Looking at the most lucrative films from 2016 to 2018, researchers found that just four of the 276 key grips working on those films were women.
But the part of our business that's really growing is our share base, as we hand out more and more options to our worthy executives, producers, editors and key grips.
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