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When we had to plan studio productions, we had obviously nice plans drawn up of where

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the sets were going to be placed in the studios. This is a plan of the big studio at Riverside

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on a quarter inch scale, and we would have a model made to show the director and producer

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and lighting what the thing was generally going to look like and how it was all going

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to work. And then the director would go home with the floor plan and work out where he

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was going to put the cameras and booms for all the scenes he knew he had to shoot. Sometimes

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he'd only need one camera on a scene, and sometimes he'd need four. And the cameras

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all came from outlets on the walls. And there were outlets on every wall, and outlets also,

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as here, for the power to power the crane. And the director had to work out, and it was

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trial and error, he would get a paper clip and a piece of string which was attached to

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a little plastic cutout of the actual size in the studio of each of the camera, pieces

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of camera equipment, and he would go around the studio in the running order that the thing

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was to be shot, working out where he would need his cameras and where they would have

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to leave a set and go across to another set, while another camera might have to go from

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there across to here. And it was terribly important that he shouldn't get the cables

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crossed, because if he did, the camera would never get there. Sometimes it was possible,

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and it did happen, that a couple of camera cable wallers would come along and lift the

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cable up and let a camera go underneath. And then, of course, it would be necessary for

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him to go back later. And he'd go right through the show like this, and then when it came

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to a planning meeting, the model would be shown to everybody and the plan would be on

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the table, and the director would go through and take everyone through the whole plan of

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the production, so everybody knew exactly what was going to happen on the day.