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stock footage

American  

noun

Movies, Television.
  1. film containing stock shots.


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He tried stock footage, but it didn’t click.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2023

DDB Philippines said in its own statement that the use of stock footage in mood videos is standard in the advertising industry, but apologised for using other videos in this instance.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2023

And when that was locked and in distribution, they took everything he shot that didn’t wind up in the film and they sent it to the stock footage department.

From New York Times Feb. 23, 2022

At the end of the day, the small business, the flower shop that’s making the stock footage, iMovie in your cloud tool, it’s making an ad.

From The Verge Apr. 20, 2021

There are jagged mid-interview edits, unexplained fadeouts, occasional surges of faintly troubling soundtrack music and interpolated video essays composed of stock footage: the blinking lights on a broadband modem, the U.S.

From Salon Mar. 21, 2021

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