French hours n. a work day which begins at noon; a precisely timed work day, usually without breaks. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
French hours n.— «[Billy Wilder] also likes the French hours—noon to 7:30 P.M. “In Hollywood, with the five-day week and early hours, one can make fifty silly errors before one begins to work.”» —“Production Views Along the Seine” by Gene...
French hours n.— «He works two days a week, commuting from Palm Springs to Toronto, where the Grosso-Jacobson series is produced. “We work French hours up there,” he said. “You go to work in the afternoon and work through eight hours.”» —“Off...
French hours n.— «Up at 6 to get ready for the day’s shoot (civilized French hours of noon to 8 p.m.), in bed some time after 1 a.m. » —“‘A Man And A Woman’ Redux: Trying To Rekindle The Ashes” by William Hall Los Angeles Times (California) Mar. 9...
French hours n.— «We would get there at 6 a.m. and roll by 6:45. We did “French hours.” You don’t break for lunch, you just keep passing food all day. Colin’s confession at the end, that’s the ninth day of shooting—it’s the first take and the only...
French hours n.— «During Phone Booth, no lunch breaks were taken because all of the staff agreed not to take lunch breaks (food was simply available for crew to grab and eat when they could) versus normal movies where there a very specifically set...