1
: 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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The case gained momentum after a community member provided detectives with video footage from his Tesla that captured the attack.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
When the footage from a celebrated 1996 first-contact expedition in the Amazon resurfaces decades later, a triumphant story of discovery unravels into a reckoning with colonialism, documentary ethics, and the lasting impact on the Korubo people.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
Television footage showed firefighters battling the flames as large plumes of black smoke billowed from the multistory building.
—ABC News, 6 May 2026
Teams can decode tiny movements from previous starts, go over such footage in pregame meetings and use that knowledge to generate tips in that night’s game.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 6 May 2026
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Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
When the footage from a celebrated 1996 first-contact expedition in the Amazon resurfaces decades later, a triumphant story of discovery unravels into a reckoning with colonialism, documentary ethics, and the lasting impact on the Korubo people.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
Television footage showed firefighters battling the flames as large plumes of black smoke billowed from the multistory building.
—ABC News, 6 May 2026
Teams can decode tiny movements from previous starts, go over such footage in pregame meetings and use that knowledge to generate tips in that night’s game.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 6 May 2026
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“Footage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footage. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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footage
noun
foot·age
ˈfu̇-tij 
1
: length measured in feet
2
: scenes or action recorded on film or video
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