footage
footage Lexical Profile
footage Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A portion of a motion picture, television broadcast, or video recording, especially unedited material capturing a specific event.
"The documentary features rare archival footage of the historic moon landing."
Size, length, or area measured in linear or square feet.
"The real estate listing includes the exact square footage of every room in the house."
Word Nuance & Usage
"Footage" is an uncountable (mass) noun and does not take an indefinite article or a plural form; use quantifiers such as "some footage" or "a piece of footage" rather than "a footage" or "footages."
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the mid-19th century from "foot" and the suffix "-age" to denote length measured in feet; the cinematic sense emerged in the early 20th century because motion-picture film stock was physically measured and billed by the linear foot.