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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

This is a movie that uses stock footage of the Bill Clinton inauguration and the O.J.

From New York Times Jul. 27, 2023

A promotional video for Yorkshire Water has been criticised for using stock footage of the rolling hills of Herefordshire and images taken in a Russian bar.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2023

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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