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 footage on Wikipedia

Etymology

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Fromfoot(unit of length) +‎-age.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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footage (countable anduncountable,pluralfootages)

  1. (usually uncountable) Anamount offilm ortape that has been used to record something.
    Thefootage we shot at the riot yesterday got ruined.
    • 2009, N. C. Asthana, Anjali Nirmal,Urban Terrorism: Myths and Realities‎[1], page126:
      The weaponry at their disposal was said and shown in numerous videofootages to be mainly small arms and anti-tank rocket launchers, etc.—the 'classical' arms of the guerrilla.
  2. Ameasurement infeet.
    • 1965,The Southern Lumberman‎[2], volume211, page36:
      […]more and more contractors are buying Southern pine in greaterfootages per order.
    • 1976, John Burder,16mm Film Cutting‎[3], CRC Press:
      Startingfootages should go above the line at the start of the sound and finishingfootages beneath the line at the end of it.

Usage notes

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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.

Derived terms

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Translations

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amount of film that has been used
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