footage en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (General-American) audio
- /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/
- fo͝otʹĭj
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.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
“The footages were sick and sickening – portraying adults engaging in sexual acts with each other and performing sexual acts on infants and children, in addition to physically abusing them,” the lawsuit said, adding that Zoom admitted the hacker was a “known serial offender” who had been reported “multiple times to the authorities.”
2020 May 14, Alicia Lee, “California church sues Zoom after ‘zoombomber’ streamed porn in a Bible study class”, in CNN:The footage we shot at the riot yesterday got ruined.
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.
2009, N. C. Asthana, Anjali Nirmal, Urban Terrorism: Myths and Realities, page 126:The sheriff’s office released a compilation of bodycam footage Friday from deputies at the scene that shows them handcuffing Earl and pinning him down for more than 20 minutes as he struggles and repeatedly shouts for help.
2024 September 30, Chelsea Bailey, “‘Take his pulse, he’s blue’: Bodycam footage shows fatal encounter between epileptic Indiana man and first responders”, in CNN: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).
1958 February 14, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
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(countable, uncountable) A measurement in feet.
[…]more and more contractors are buying Southern pine in greater footages per order.
1965, The Southern Lumberman, volume 211, page 36:Starting footages should go above the line at the start of the sound and finishing footages beneath the line at the end of it.
1976, John Burder, 16mm Film Cutting, CRC Press:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| footages | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
stock footage · found footage · file footage · square footage
Translations (40)
es metraje (amount of film that has been used) · uk відзнятий матеріал (amount of film that has been used) · pl materiał filmowy (amount of film that has been used) · hu bejátszás (amount of film that has been used) · hu felvétel (amount of film that has been used) · ja 映像 (amount of film that has been used) · es material (amount of film that has been used) · de Bildmaterial (amount of film that has been used) · pt metragem (amount of film that has been used) · fr métrage cinématographique (amount of film that has been used) · ru метра́ж (amount of film that has been used) · de Bandmaterial (amount of film that has been used) · tr metraj (amount of film that has been used) · cmn 錄像 /录像 (amount of film that has been used) · fi filmiaineisto (amount of film that has been used) · nl filmmateriaal (amount of film that has been used) · no filmmateriale (amount of film that has been used) · cmn 影片 (amount of film that has been used) · fr métrage (amount of film that has been used) · de Filmmeter (amount of film that has been used) · es imágenes (amount of film that has been used) · fr pellicule enregistrée (amount of film that has been used) · hu filmfelvétel (amount of film that has been used) · pt material (amount of film that has been used) · fi filmausmateriaali (amount of film that has been used) · fi kuvamateriaali (amount of film that has been used) · sh snimka (amount of film that has been used) · ru отсня́тый материа́л (amount of film that has been used) · hu filmrészlet (amount of film that has been used) · ru фута́ж (amount of film that has been used) · de Filmmaterial (amount of film that has been used) · sv filmmaterial (amount of film that has been used) · eo filmmaterialo (amount of film that has been used) · cmn 鏡頭 /镜头 (amount of film that has been used) · da filmmateriale (amount of film that has been used) · mi kiriatatanga (amount of film that has been used) · et filmimaterjal (amount of film that has been used) · uk відзняті кадри (amount of film that has been used) · sh filmski materijal (amount of film that has been used) · it materiale filmato (amount of film that has been used)