== An electrician in charge of lighting on a movie or television set. A gaffer could mean a boss in the UK, or a movie industry, or a type of adhesive tape, or it could be a slang term for something else entirely.
It can also be used to refer to one's father or grandfather. Chief lighting technician
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A gaffer in the motion picture industry and on a television crew is an electrician, sometimes head of the electrical department, repsonsible for the execution and sometimes the design of the lighting plan for a productions's grips.
A gaffer is a person who does odd jobs around the set such as using gaffer tape, carrying cable, setting up equipment and getting coffee.
* old-timer: an elderly man * an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set * foreman: a person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" Also, it is spelled 'gaffer'
The sinking set of the movie Titanic (1997) was the biggest movie set ever built. The ship which was scale to size of the real Titanic was built on a tilting platform to sink the ship in a big tank.
It was filmed in Brazil.
Somewhere in Canada.
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