footage

Pronunciation: /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/

The English word “footage” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
A measurement in feet.

Etymology

From foot (unit of length) + -age. 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. Compare typologically French métrage.

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