clapper boy

He got a job as clapper boy on George Formby comedies.

His first film as a clapper boy was The Marriage of Corbal.

This was the first film that the great cinematographer Oswald Morris worked on as a clapper boy.

This led to him successively becoming a clapper boy, camera loader and focus puller.

Born in Hull, Thomas entered the film business as a clapper boy at Shepperton Studios in 1932 whilst studying.

On this production, future directors Ronald Neame worked as a "clapper boy" operating the clapperboard and Michael Powell took still photographs.

Here he worked first as a clapper boy, then during the course of the decade worked his way up to become magazine loader and then an assistant cameraman.

At 15 he began working as a camera assistant, clapper boy and production runner for British International Pictures, including Hitchcock's The Skin Game (1931).

He tried his hand at journalism in Bristol but soon entered the motion picture industry - as a clapper boy - and worked in all its production departments, especially editing.

Javed was a clapper boy for the film and was later made the dialogue writer as director S.M. Sagar was unable to find a dialogue writer.

Soon thereafter he was called to the set of The Little American to act as an extra clapper boy, which brought him into contact with silent film director Cecil B. DeMille.

Leaving the Army as a Staff Sergeant in 1947, he studied art at the University of Rome then returned to England where he found work as a clapper boy at Denham Studios.

After serving a long apprenticeship as a clapper boy in the 1940s, with Britain's Army Film Unit, Davis eventually worked his way up to focus puller and camera operator in low-budget British films of the 1950s.

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.

During World War II, Harryhausen worked for Special Services Division under Colonel Frank Capra, as a loader, clapper boy, goffer and later camera assistant, whilst working at home animating short films about the use and development of military equipment.