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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesfilmato
Pronunciation / Transliteration: fil-mah-toh
"Hanno trovato un vecchio filmato della città."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Cinematographic or video recording, especially a specific sequence of film or digital media shot for a particular purpose.
"The documentary features rare archival footage from the 1960s." - 2
The measured length of a motion picture film expressed in feet.
"The editor carefully measured the remaining footage on the reel."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from 'foot' (Old English 'fōt') combined with the suffix '-age' (from Old French '-age'), originally referring to the measurement of motion picture film in feet. Over time, the term broadened to denote any recorded length of film or video material, regardless of physical measurement.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Footage" is said worldwide
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images
Transliteration: ee-mahzh
Script: images d'archives
"Le réalisateur a intégré de nouvelles images dans le film."
Filmmaterial
Transliteration: film-muh-teeri-ahl
"Das historische Filmmaterial wurde sorgfältig restauriert."
filmato
Transliteration: fil-mah-toh
"Hanno trovato un vecchio filmato della città."
metraje
Transliteration: meh-trah-heh
"El director revisó todo el metraje antes de editar."
filmagem
Transliteration: feel-mah-zhẽy
"A filmagem da festa ficou excelente."
फ़ੁटेज
Transliteration: futej
Script: फ़ुटेज
"इस वृत्तचित्र में दुर्लभ फुटेज का उपयोग किया गया है।"
镜头
Transliteration: jìntóu
"这部纪录片包含许多珍贵的历史镜头。"
영상
Transliteration: yeong-sang
"편집된 영상이 매우 자연스럽습니다."
映像
Transliteration: eizou
"そのドキュメンタリーには貴重な映像が含まれている。"
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