footage

plural footages

1. uncountableusuallyAn 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.

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   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 28, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90

   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 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 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

2. countableuncountableA measurement in feet.

   […]more and more contractors are buying Southern pine in greater footages per order.

   1965, The Southern Lumberman, volume 211, page 36

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   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