GAFFER

Gaffer

A gaffer in the motion picture industry and on a television crew is an electrician, sometimes head of the electrical department, responsible for the electrification of the lighting plan for a production's grips. The term Gaffer originally related to the moving of overhead equipment to control lighting levels using a gaff. The term has been used for the chief electrician in films since 1936 according to the Oxford English Dictionary. However, a book on motion picture production from 1929 refers to the chief electrician as the gaffer. The gaffer's assistant is the best boy.

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gaffer

Noun

  1. A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
  2. A glassblower.
    Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble, or parison, with the aid of a blowpipe, or blow tube. A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glassmith, or gaffer. (, 2012 November)

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. An old man.
  2. A foreman.
  3. An "Old Gaffer" is a sailor.
  4. In Maritime regions "the Little Gaffer" is the baby in the house. (the boss!)


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