footage
//ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ//
Forms
- Plural
- footages
Definitions
1.An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
- The footage we shot at the riot yesterday got ruined.
- The footage of this scene has been re-used in several later films where a good, convincing train smash was required, notably in "Seven Sinners" (1937).
- The weaponry at their disposal was said and shown in numerous video footages to be mainly small arms and anti-tank rocket launchers, etc., the 'classical' arms of the guerrilla.
2.A measurement in feet.
- Starting footages should go above the line at the start of the sound and finishing footages beneath the line at the end of it.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4746
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From foot (unit of length) + -age. Video footage is so called because movie film and television tape was measured in feet. The same term is still applied by analogy to digital videos which are stored on hard drives or microchips.
Compare typologically French métrage.