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stock footage

American  

noun

Movies, Television.
  1. film containing stock shots.


Example Sentences

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I ended up working at a start-up, editing commercials from stock footage.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023

There's a combo of practical models, playfully retro stock footage, and lo-fi visual effects touches throughout that add to the jarring, dreamlike nature of it all.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2023

Whereas his early films favored suburban Las Vegas and the nearby desert, his 2018 cyberthriller “Twisted Pair” is replete with green-screen photography and stock footage.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

"The use of foreign stock footage in a campaign promoting the Philippines in highly inappropriate, and contradictory to the DOT's objectives", it said.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 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