A Greensman is responsible for the foliage in a film.  Like a gardener, they
add the extra vegetation to a set.  Desert, forest, etc.  They deal with
trees, shrubs, brush, dirt, etc.  Does that answer the question for you.  It
is simply stated, but that is what they do.
 
B. Engels
Yavapai College
 
At 09:50 AM 8/12/96 -0600, you wrote:
>I hate to be the one to ruin the casual conversation of this group with a
>question that reduces us to the utilitarian, but I've been asked by a
>couple of local movie buffs to explain who a "Greensman" or "Greensperson"
>is. This is a new category in screen credits that has evidently appeared in
>the last few years and whose origin has escaped my research efforts.
>Anybody have a clue?
>
>Gene Walz
>Film Studies
>University of Manitoba
>Winnipeg, Canada
>
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