Drawing on both family ties and personal experiences within the industry, Old Clapperboard aka KnotHead Productions was started for the development of a wide variety of motion picture, media, photographic and publishing projects.
Developed by Jay Dee Witney, the son of motion picture director William Witney, it was initially called KnotHead Productions "because my father used to call me knot head".
As we started to produce more and more projects, with videos now posted on Face Book, You Tube, Vimeo, Instagram, Twitter and other social media sites, Knothead has grown up and has evolved into Old Clapperboard Productions.
The old clapperboard that you see in the logo is alive and well at the Lone Pine Museum of Western History. Director William Witney used this clapper on a TV series called 'Rescue 8' in the late 1950s and gave it to his son, Jay Dee, to produce home movies. Rumor has it that Quentin Tarantino borrowed it from the Lone Pine Film History Museum and used it during the filming of 'Django Unchained' while filming in Lone Ranger Canyon.
