"The Clap"

Somehow, the Slate/Clapboard/Marker has become known on this set as "The Clap." There is an endless series of jokes about this: nobody says "where is the Slate?" when they can say "Who has the clap?" Even better is to speculate on WHO GAVE THEM "The Clap."

Patrick Gibbs made the first of these jokes, but it has now caught on to the point of being a minor obsession. Sound Mixer Beau Gorley has been known to do this joke as many as 25 times in 4 minutes.

I have no doubt this will be the longest last influence this film has on the people who made. All of us, not matter where we go or what we do in the world of film, will always call the slate "The Clap" and specualte on who gave it to who.

Sigh.