Mike,
Haven't you heard of the 20 meter long fusable link? A movie set I worked on, used a new 100 foot roll of 14/3 SO cable with a 120 V 15 A female cord cap on one end and teminated the other end into the load side of a 200 A fused disconnect!
I was told this was the power to the "sound" system. Just because we were working in and around a 6 million gallon swimming pool set was no reason for safety to get in the way.
We only electrocuted the director once. And that was when the inside use only light ballast got rained on for 24 hours straight. Those bonding and grounding rules don't apply all the times, do they?