Meaning & use
footage
Recorded film or video material, especially of a particular event or subject.
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Security cameras captured footage of the break-in from three different angles.
The documentary used rare archival footage from the 1960s civil rights marches.
A note on using this word
Footage is uncountable, so speakers say some footage or a piece of footage, never a footage or footages.
Words with a similar meaning
filmrecording
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