Meaning of footage in English

footage

noun [ U ]

/ˈfʊt.ɪdʒ/ us

/ˈfʊt̬.ɪdʒ/

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(a piece of) film especially one showing an event:

newsreel footage Woody Allen's movie "Zelig" contains early newsreel footage.

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footage | American Dictionary

footage

noun [ U ]

/ˈfʊt̬·ɪdʒ/

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film or videotape that shows a single event or place:

Footage showing entire city blocks in flames flickered nightly on TV.

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footage | Business English

footage

noun [ U ]

/ˈfʊtɪdʒ/ us

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a piece of film showing an event:

Detectives were studying security video footage taken from several locations around the van.

MEASURES

the size of an area or building in feet:

The department was asked to check the square footage of the house.

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Examples of footage

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In all, 30 tapes with over 100-hours of footage were scanned using event sampling to note and time each discrete interactional episode.

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The five-minute footage was later shown on the internet as well as by foreign television networks.

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Its striving toward documentary reality notwithstanding, this is footage from a very particular news network, arguably with its own interests and agenda.

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The replication of press photographs (and footage) is a welldocumented aspect of the news media industry.

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Second, documentary footage shown between scenes not only presents objective historical background but sometimes helps to reflect the main characters' subjective state of mind.

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The processing of the video footage was aimed at obtaining multiple perspectives of single scenes.

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This is perhaps most obvious in those programmes that combine archive footage with period hits, but the device has become common in dramas too.

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This observation comes from her experience of incorporating video footage during lessons.

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This was not the case and there was no evidence of re-entry from observing video footage.

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The tapes are capable of recording 90 minutes of continuous footage.

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During linking the ideas of sketching protocols, video footage for each segment was inspected as well.

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As the focus of the package is 'creating ensemble', it is unfortunate that footage of rehearsals was not included.

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Stock music is the aural equivalent of stock visual footage.

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News of a disaster is swiftly followed by an item with amusing footage of a rabbit taking a cooling bath in a bucket of water.

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Film and programme makers know what they are getting without having to wait for music to be finished and matched to the footage.

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