Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On the lighter side. ;-) While on a Hollywood movie promotion assignment some years back an interesting "smoking situation occurred." ;-) As some of you know, when you see the smoke filled bar room scene it isn't really "tobacco smoke" because to attain the volume for a movie scene the undertakers would be making a fortune carting off the smoke filled bodies for the volume required. "Safety hazards a side" the grips whatever who do all the scene set-ups some how got "smoke generating oils" mixed up to the extent that. When we'd, actors, still photog and others involved on the set had spent a couple of days working in the "environmentally unfriendly scene filled with phoney smoke from the oil smoke generators" it was discovered everything had to be shut down for a couple of days while we????????? ;-) You'll love it! All got over diarrhoea we encountered due to the "wrong oil being used in the smoke generators and inhaling the stuff in all day!" Man it was incredible! :-( As I was never a smoker it kind of put a perspective on what happens to yer guts and lungs when yer a tobacco smoker! ;-) Like it was, to say impolitely... "shit heaven" everywhere for most of the crew during several days until it flushed itself out of our systems!! There where a couple of "grips fired" and several others wrung out over the "Oil smoke" screw-up. But after that was straightened out we went back to the "normal routine! " ;-) ted