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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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Love it OKAY, so there is no real reason why you might need your own movie clapperboard.
At the end they gave him a clapperboard signed by cast and crew.
And they recorded the sound at different speeds, without a clapperboard, so there was no way to synch it with the images.
An actor officially launched the mega-budget flick by sounding the clapperboard for the opening shot last week.
We spend a couple of afternoons lazily drifting along the back roads, past clapperboard farmhouses, vineyards and corn-fields.
I hope he didn't, from force of habit, use a clapperboard when he did his online show.

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