Clapperboard, used in film production to aid synchronizing audio and video and to identify different shots
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James R. Clapper, the current Director of National Intelligence of the United States
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A wooden sluice or aboiteau (plural aboiteaux) is then built into the dyke, with a hinged door (clapper valve) that swings open at low tide to allow fresh water to drain from the farmland but swings shut at high tide to prevent salt water from inundating the fields.
He also was referenced in Superman/Batman Annual #1 in a throwaway caption near the end: "Darkseid played chess with Ambush Bug. Ambush Bug accidentally destroyed the universe with the 'Ultimate Clapper.'"
The clapper (two sticks hinged together) has been anachronistically claimed to have been invented by Frank W. Thring (father of actor Frank Thring), who was head of Efftee Studios in 1930s Melbourne, Australia, however as Efftee wasn't founded until 1931, not the 1920s as sometimes stated, this claim must fail.
He has been followed into the film industry by his son, Trevor Coop (Camera Operator), and his three grandsons, Jason Coop (focus puller), Gareth Coop (Clapper Loader), and Adam Coop (Assistant Director)
The 1st AC reports to the director of photography, works alongside the camera operator, and oversees the 2nd assistant camera (also known as the "clapper loader") and any other members of the camera department.
Typically composed of a smooth, suspended metal shell encasing an interior clapper, the West Mexican bells were generally fashioned from copper alloys and bore particular resemblance to bells made in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.
Dropping out in 1932, he started working in the film industry at Wembley Studios as an unpaid gofer for Michael Powell, among others, eventually graduating to the positions of clapper boy and camera assistant on quota quickies.
But the forces from swinging the 22,500 kg (49,600 lb) bell endangered the structure of the beloved tower, so in 1878 Friedrich von Schmidt, the cathedral's architect, ordered that it be rung only by pulling its clapper, instead of being swung.
Lassen was killed in 1859 under strange circumstances near what is now Clapper Creek in the Black Rock Range in Nevada.
Greg Theberge (born 1959), retired Canadian ice hockey player, grandson of former NHL player Dit Clapper
The thongophone produces sound by striking a rubber clapper, usually a thong, hence its namesake, against the opening of one of many PVC pipes of varying length.