Clapperboard Display | ENEMY AT THE GATES (2001)

Sold Stock #48640 | Sold Mar 23 2015

ENEMY AT THE GATES (2001)

Clapperboard Display

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A framed clapperboard from the Jean-Jacques Annaud’s war film Enemy at the Gates. Conscripted into the Soviet army during the Great Patriotic War, Urals shepherd Vasily Zaytsev (Jude Law) proves himself as a crack shot on the battlefield. A fateful meeting with political commissar Danilov (Joseph Fiennes) leads to fame and incredible danger as the German army threatens to take the pivotal city of Stalingrad.
One of the most iconic and memorable aspects of the movie making industry has to be the clapperboard. For decades this has been a vital piece of equipment that enables not just sound and image to be synchronised, but to also advise the viewer of the raw footage the exact details of the upcoming shot. The simple monochromatic device has become a symbolic image synonymous with films, and is still used to this day.

This original production used Panavision board is made of acrylic with wood clapper sticks. The name “Enemy At The Gates” is engraved at the top with the names of director Jean-Jacques Annaud and director of photography Robert Fraisse below. Sections for the roll, scene and take are still filled in at the centre of the board, with tape applied at the bottom indicating the last day of use as “5-3-00” for a twilight interior scene. An engraved “A”, painted red, indicates the board being used for the primary “A” camera on set. The clapstick remains firmly attached, and remains in good working order. The board measures 28.5cm x 24 cm x 3.5cm (11.25" x 9.5" x ).

Well used on the production with some wear, this board remains in an overall good production-used condition and comes presented in a custom-made frame featuring an intricately laser-cut mount board with the film’s poster artwork and an opening front panel allowing easy access to the piece.
Size

Item size: 29.92" × 3.54" × 23.23" (76cm × 9cm × 59cm)

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