![]() ![]() It became more common a few decades later, when footage was the basis for paying miners (X dollars per linear foot mined, sort of a piece rate for guys underground).įun Fact: May all your footage be cheery. ![]() Then it was used about distance or extent in length. And said film was measured in linear feet.Ī foot being an archaic yet still used in the US unit of measurement (a bit less than 1/3 of a meter) means that footage more generally means a measurement of some area in feet or of a thing in linear feet - lumber is so measured, just like film (board feet, not to be confused with bored feet).Īlthough foot (which I will have to do one day as its own Word) is ancient, footage is pretty modern, oldest cite in 1842. Why the foot? Because when this sense ("recorded video material") first emerged around 1911, it meant the amount or length of PHYSICAL film* used to produce a given clip. Close-up color clips of an attractive set of toes, nails painted bright red, slathered with whipped cream, wiggling and writhing suggestively? Foot fetish footage. And the songs music may have been Western, but its lyrics were Korean. In order to unpack this file after download, please enter the following. This trainer may not necessarily work with your copy of the game. Gameplay-facilitating trainer for The Lord of the Rings: War in the North. Grainy film highlights of your grandparents' wedding in 1959? Footage. The indisputable national folk song of South (and North) Korea is Arirang, but. The Lord of the Rings: War in the North - +14 Trainer. A recording of your strong young poorly trained puppy Labrador dragging the turkey off of the table and on to the floor? Footage (and chaos). Shots of that NASA launch today? Footage. Now it generally means (as Merriams puts it succinctly) "recorded video material". One thing I wonder is, what happens to that footage later on? And then I wonder at that word, footage is that how old my lower extremities are? (Spoiler: no.)įootage is a noun. Put me in a reminiscing frame of mind, and I was remembering old moving pictures my dad took of Christmas Days past - a popular day for recording things even in the past, and even more so in the modern era where practically every teen and adult have a moving-pictures camera in their pocket. Every album is a story, so cue the artistic resurgence of the long-play format. Mom's been sending out old photos recently, including ones from decades ago when her parents visited from England. Terry Pratchett, fantasy author, dead at 66 after battle with Alzheimers.
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