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clapperboard

[ UK /klˈæpəbˌɔːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together

How To Use clapperboard In A Sentence

  • At the end they gave him a clapperboard signed by cast and crew.
  • The name, if credited at all, is usually down there with the clapperboard guy and the gofer who fetches the clapperboard guy's coffee.
  • We spend a couple of afternoons lazily drifting along the back roads, past clapperboard farmhouses, vineyards and corn-fields.
  • The clapperboard sounded again, as the director launched the film at a temple at AVM studios on Sunday, cheered by a surging crowd.
  • Each of the winners in the FÍS Film Award receives a commemorative clapperboard, which can be displayed in their school as a mark of their outstanding achievement in film-making.
  • I hope he didn't, from force of habit, use a clapperboard when he did his online show.
  • And, last week, two days of filming took place at the school with children having the chance to direct, interview staff and fellow pupils and hold the clapperboard before each scene.
  • Clips of deleted scenes, bloopers, rehearsals - even just the beginnings and ends of shots, with clapperboard and sound-sync beeps - have the sense of something snatched from a real event, like historical archive footage.
  • An actor officially launched the mega-budget flick by sounding the clapperboard for the opening shot last week.
  • Each section features easily identifiable icons such as a clapperboard to indicate the locations for films and television sets, or a gold star to represent the birthplace of a celebrity to make the guide quick and simple to read.
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