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file footage

American  

noun

Television.
  1. film footage already on file; stock footage of crowds, cityscapes, football games, etc.


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People watch a TV broadcasting file footage of a news report on North Korea firing what appeared to be a ballistic missile, in Seoul, South Korea, February 27, 2022.

From Reuters Mar. 7, 2022

You can see in the file footage that you used at the beginning of the segment that I still have lesions on my face from that illness.

From Seattle Times Apr. 7, 2018

The company says it was created overnight from file footage and narrated by an agency art director who had never done voiceover work.

From Washington Times Feb. 2, 2015

Bannon also deploys clip after clip of file footage of Wasilla's infrastructure improvements under Palin: pipe being laid, men in hardhats carrying girders, families playing in parks.

From Slate Jun. 10, 2011

So we see file footage on everyone from Sharpe James, a former mayor of Newark, to James Treffinger, a former Essex County executive, to James E. McGreevey, the governor who resigned.

From New York Times Oct. 24, 2010

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