archival footage

collocation in English

meaningsofarchivalandfootage

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archival
adjective
uk
/ˌɑːˈkaɪ.vəl/
us
/ˌɑːrˈkaɪ.vəl/
relating to an archive of historical records or ...
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footage
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfʊt.ɪdʒ/
us
/ˈfʊt̬.ɪdʒ/
(a piece of) film especially one showing ...
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(Definition ofarchivalandfootagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The documentary includedarchivalfootagetaken during live performances and original recording/mix sessions.
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The use ofarchivalfootagein video especially calls for extra attention.
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The resulting two-hour-long animation, composed ofarchivalfootageand animated sequences, was used as digital set design for the performance, accompanying the actors on stage.
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The film mixes dramatisations with real and fauxarchivalfootage.
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Its on-camera sources are mostly conspiracy theorists, co-mingled with selective eyewitness accounts, drawn fromarchivalfootageand often taken out of context.
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The film incorporates rarearchivalfootageand interviews of leaders relating this history to the present.
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Videos based onarchivalfootageare still being released after her death.
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The film is a series of interviews conducted without cameras, while showing various points of interest that the band is discussing asarchivalfootage.
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There's a lot ofarchivalfootagethat we're putting together, a coffee table book, hopefully a brand new album - so many ideas.
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In heartbreaking testimony corroborated with rarearchivalfootage, they tell us about their dramatic survival and their survivors guilt.
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The article concluded by summarizing the film as riveting, brutal in its honesty, realistic in its language and stunning in itsarchivalfootage.
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It is composed primarily ofarchivalfootageand interviews.
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The fauxarchivalfootageincludes interviews with people who are depicted in the dramatisations.
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It contains primarily live performances but delves into backstage andarchivalfootageof the band.
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The production was interspersed witharchivalfootageand short filmed interviews with some of the other surviving cast members.
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It also includes black and whitearchivalfootage.
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The film features rarearchivalfootage, interviews, and still photography throughout the twentieth century.
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In addition to being interviewed in all three, he also appeared inarchivalfootagein the last two.
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Over three hundred hours ofarchivalfootagewere collected, and the film took over five years to complete.
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Archivalfootageof the royal visit has also survived.
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