Dollygrippery

 First of all, a congratulations to my old compadre Dolly Grip Frank Boone and Key Grip Eddie Evans on the success of The Walking Dead.  Arg...

  This post grew out of a conversation between Wick and Sanjay about an upcoming job Sanjay has in Poland and Germany. As I know very litt...

   The movie I'm doing now is all handheld. When I say that, I mean ALL handheld. We don't even have a dolly. It's this director...

   This is something that we have harped on time and again. I often get emails from young beginning dolly grips asking what they can do to i...

 I apologize for being so sparse on the posts lately. I've been in the middle of a twelve week show and we just wrapped. All in all, it ...

I ran over one a few weeks ago and it actually derailed the dolly. It ran it the %^&* off the track. The fracking thing is as thick as a...

Every now and then, I see one I wish I'd done. Nice work, Sean.

  I am a huge John Wayne fan. One of my earliest memories is of seeing True Grit  at the drive-in. I couldn't have been more than three ...

  I often get asked about the importance of a level track vs a "lay of the land" one. My reply is usually that I'm more concer...

For years I had an old ammo box that I had ripped the top off, and then velcroed it to whatever dolly I was using. As much as I liked ha...

  It was interesting to read all the comments and emails from my last post. All the old-timers pretty much came up with the same answers, wh...

Those of you who are regular readers may have briefly caught a post I did last week entitled So You Want To Be A Dolly Grip. It listed some ...

To help spread the word, you can also find us here: https://www.facebook.com/dollygrippery We've got a new Flickr page up for photos...

This post is being rewritten. Those of you who've been coming here for a while are familiar with the NDSR, or Next Day Sober Rewrite. I ...

  Gil over at GI Track has a beautiful track system and I thought I would give everyone a chance to see some highlights. For those of you...

The following is a compendium of some things I've overheard over the years. I am responsible for a few of them, but most were said by ot...

 The idea for this post actually came from something that happened this week. We were shooting in a nice neighborhood in the heart of downto...

In order to balance out the universe, it's only right to have a list of Things That Don't Suck. In no particular order: You know...

In no particular order: Directors who actually look over my head to ask the operator to "Go faster," "Go slower,...

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