Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a device which synchronizes sound and picture while making a motion picture, consisting of boards held in front of a movie camera, which are are banged together.
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- noun film A device used in film production, having
hinged boards that are brought together with aclap , used tosynchronize picture andsound at the start of eachtake of amotion picture or othervideo production.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together
Etymologies
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Examples
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Draw on a clapperboard design and write the party details on the back of the card.
Princess Party Cookbook Annabel Karmel 2009
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Both suffer from performers who should never be allowed in front of a camera without a clapperboard.
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We pulled into a short driveway in front of a small, clapperboard house that was dingy white and in need of paint.
Finding Dignity J. Marie Darden 2005
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We pulled into a short driveway in front of a small, clapperboard house that was dingy white and in need of paint.
Finding Dignity J. Marie Darden 2005
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She's on the west bank, three berths down -- that's south -- from No. 7 Granary, Novosibirsk, black clapperboard with the Russian flag painted over the main doors, recently done. '
Quiller Meridian Hall, Adam 1993
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Elsewhere, the show really went to town on the cinematic theme with a Star Wars-style opening sequence, copious clapperboard graphics, film canisters littering the set and Bruce
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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If you want a clapperboard image try this, or email me for the original plus some others: -
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HI, does anybody know how to put a clapperboard between scenes? ...
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Once inside, he got work as a scene-painter, later progressing to the clapperboard.
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Passersby eyed one guy as he snapped a clapperboard, while the boom operator positioned the microphone overhead.
gangerh commented on the word clapperboard
The slate that marks each take by number and synchronizes sound and vision.
June 8, 2008