A chocolate mishap. $540,000 worth.

[FilmGeek]

From www.cinematography.com

The remake of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” experienced a delay on Wednesday when a worker dropped a $540,000 camera lens in a vat of chocolate. The technician had failed to properly secure his wire-held camera, and watched aghast as it plunged into the 3-feet-deep tank.

"A team of riggers had come in specially from the States to set it up over the vat of synthetic chocolate. But someone made a mistake and it wasn’t secured properly. “The production team didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. The camera is probably beyond repair.”

Oh my. Someone just got fired. :o

This may do better in CS, I’m not sure.

[Ephemera]

@FilmGeek

This may do better in CS, I’m not sure.

It did.

[Binarydrone]

This may be off topic, but how in the hell can a camera lens cost that much? Does it come with hookers and Havana cigars or something? Does it see it to the 4th dimension? WTF?

[noname]

@Binarydrone

This may be off topic, but how in the hell can a camera lens cost that much? Does it come with hookers and Havana cigars or something? Does it see it to the 4th dimension? WTF?

No, the hookers and the Havanas are at an extra price.

[The_Scrivener]

And where exactly was Slugworth when this happened?