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: recorded video material
A camerawoman from Channel 12 shows up to grab some footage for the evening news.—
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Bari WalshVideo footage posted online shows him daring an audience member to fight …—Latifah Muhammad
Latifah MuhammadRamsay uses security footage from inside and outside of the brownstone to detail Joe's actions.—Kyle Turner
Kyle TurnerThe documentary series that presents archival images and film footage in color continues, this week focusing on memorable events from the 1940s.—Kristi Turnquist
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: length or quantity expressed in feet: such as
a
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: the total number of running feet of motion-picture film used (as for a scene or subject)
The people of Hiroshima had a fund-raising campaign to purchase footage from films taken by American photographers …. They calculated they could purchase ten feet of footage for one thousand yen …—Ruth Ann Keyso and Masahide Ota
Ruth Ann Keyso and Masahide OtaExamples of footage in a Sentence
Some disturbing footage of the war was shown on the evening news.
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While the real McKay footage was used, in other cases the filmmakers opted to recreate archival footage out of sensitivity to the people involved.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2024
Social media footage also has shown Syrians touring the Assads’ opulent estates, revealing extravagant decor and possessions out of reach for many who lived through the country’s civil war since 2011.
—Sally Abou Aljoud, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
After nearly a week on the run, Mangione was arrested in a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania on December 9 after an employee recognized the 26-year-old from the security footage of him taking his mask down to flirt with a NYC store employee.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Dec. 2024
The minute-long footage starts by showing train locomotives on fire and then segues into a satellite image of an airport, as well as images of a plane on the tarmac which has flames billowing out of the undercarriage.
—Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2024
Social media footage also has shown Syrians touring the Assads’ opulent estates, revealing extravagant decor and possessions out of reach for many who lived through the country’s civil war since 2011.
—Sally Abou Aljoud, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
After nearly a week on the run, Mangione was arrested in a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania on December 9 after an employee recognized the 26-year-old from the security footage of him taking his mask down to flirt with a NYC store employee.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Dec. 2024
The minute-long footage starts by showing train locomotives on fire and then segues into a satellite image of an airport, as well as images of a plane on the tarmac which has flames billowing out of the undercarriage.
—Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Footage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footage. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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