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What is a clapperboard?

What is a clapperboard? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (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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Graduating from the tea urn to 'number boy', snapping shut the clapperboard, his appetite to learn was voracious.
He's so smart, when he sees the clapperboard and hears it he wants to take off.
Huddersfield's Julian Pratt was also on hand to help out with the film and man the all-important clapperboard.
At the end they gave him a clapperboard signed by cast and crew.
The clapperboard sounded again, as the director launched the film at a temple at AVM studios on Sunday, cheered by a surging crowd.
The name, if credited at all, is usually down there with the clapperboard guy and the gofer who fetches the clapperboard guy's coffee.

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