clapper
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When speaking to BBC News NI he brought along a clapper board, dog tag and Ranger Battalion jacket he kept from the set of Saving Private Ryan.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
When the sound is rolling and the clapper has been hit, I never say “Action.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
More steel tubes branch out from the top of the rods in an interlinked canopy that is hung with dozens of differently shaped and patterned ceramic bells, each with a copper clapper.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
He measured mileage by attaching a rod inside a wagon wheel — based on the circumference of the wheel, a clapper would sound at each mile and that’s where a marker would go.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2020
He presses Play on his computer and we crack up at all the outtakes, like me crossing my eyes while clapping the clapper board.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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