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: recorded video material
A camerawoman from Channel 12 shows up to grab some footage for the evening news.—
Bari Walsh
Bari WalshVideo footage posted online shows him daring an audience member to fight …—Latifah Muhammad
Latifah MuhammadRamsay uses security footage from inside and outside of the brownstone to detail Joe's actions.—Kyle Turner
Kyle TurnerThe documentary series that presents archival images and film footage in color continues, this week focusing on memorable events from the 1940s.—Kristi Turnquist
Kristi Turnquist2
: length or quantity expressed in feet: such as
a
b
: the total number of running feet of motion-picture film used (as for a scene or subject)
The people of Hiroshima had a fund-raising campaign to purchase footage from films taken by American photographers …. They calculated they could purchase ten feet of footage for one thousand yen …—Ruth Ann Keyso and Masahide Ota
Ruth Ann Keyso and Masahide OtaExamples of footage in a Sentence
Some disturbing footage of the war was shown on the evening news.
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Video footage from Paradeplatz Square in the center of Mannheim showed shoppers standing outside an area cordoned off by police tape and strewn with debris, including a shoe.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2025
Animated weather footage from windy.com shows that in the Carolinas, drought is most severe in northwestern and northeastern South Carolina.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Security footage and key card entry logs showed Vanriette entering and exiting more than 15 times on the 14th, court documents read, even though he was not assigned to that locker room.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 2 Mar. 2025
While that family member attended a wedding, surveillance footage shows Avila-Puebla parking his vehicle a half a block from the home, removing a five-gallon jug and entering the building, police said in a news release.
—Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
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David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2025
Animated weather footage from windy.com shows that in the Carolinas, drought is most severe in northwestern and northeastern South Carolina.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Security footage and key card entry logs showed Vanriette entering and exiting more than 15 times on the 14th, court documents read, even though he was not assigned to that locker room.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 2 Mar. 2025
While that family member attended a wedding, surveillance footage shows Avila-Puebla parking his vehicle a half a block from the home, removing a five-gallon jug and entering the building, police said in a news release.
—Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Footage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footage. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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