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footage|ˈfʊtɪdʒ|
[f. foot n. + -age.]
1. Mining. A piece-work system of paying miners by the running foot of work; the amount paid; also, the amount mined.
1892Rep. Mineral Industries (11th Census U.S.) 220 Two systems are employed in extracting the ore, (1) the footage system, and (2) the tribute system. The footage system is usually employed in new labores. 1909Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 10/4 The output was 15,800 tons, or 2·15 tons per head, and the development footage 3,700. 1923Glasgow Herald 31 May 16 The fathoms broken in the stopes were 234,960 against 192,784, the development footage 104,447 against 87,159, the tons milled 3,786,666 as compared with 3,447,736. 1927Sunday Times 23 Jan. 5 The Development Footage sampled totalled 5,530 feet.
2. The length in feet of cinematographic or television film used in photographing a scene, etc. Also attrib.
1916‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd ii. 22 He visualized a stampede and the probable amount of footage it would require. 1918H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made v. 128 Directors..craftily working to keep the production expense as low as possible, do not altogether forget the footage possibilities of an exterior love-scene. Ibid. vi. 150 The amounts are added up and a footage rate determined. 1950O. Skilbeck ABC of Film & TV 57 Footage counter. All ciné cameras are fitted with a meter showing the amount of film run off. 1967Spectator 28 July 101/1 NBC decided to puff the footage up into a fifty minute documentary. 1970Which? July 217/1 They all had a footage counter so that you could work out how much film you had left. |