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Answer for the clue "Boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together ", 12 letters:
clapperboard

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Word definitions for clapperboard in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A clapperboard is a device used in filmmaking and video production to assist in the synchronizing of picture and sound, and to designate and mark particular scenes and takes recorded during a production. The sharp "clap" noise that the clapperboard makes ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context film English) 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.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
clapperboard \clap"per*board`\ (kl[a^]p"p[~e]r*b[=o]rd`), n. 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.

Usage examples of clapperboard.

Then the clapperboard returned with the words ``take two'' written on it.

Thus Becca - who, when I worked in publishing, gave me a worsening series of book-shaped clothes-brushes, shoehorns and hair ornaments - this year gave me a clapperboard fridge magnet.