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 a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.

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  • 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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clapper +‎ board

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Examples

  • Draw on a clapperboard design and write the party details on the back of the card.

    Princess Party Cookbook Annabel Karmel 2009

  • Both suffer from performers who should never be allowed in front of a camera without a clapperboard.

    Making Light: Snowpocalypse Part Next 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • If you want a clapperboard image try this, or email me for the original plus some others: -

    Discussions: Message List - root 2010

  • HI, does anybody know how to put a clapperboard between scenes? ...

    Discussions: Message List - root 2010

  • Once inside, he got work as a scene-painter, later progressing to the clapperboard.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Passersby eyed one guy as he snapped a clapperboard, while the boom operator positioned the microphone overhead.

    News for Culpeper Star-Exponent 2010

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  • The slate that marks each take by number and synchronizes sound and vision.

    June 8, 2008