The origin of the term "footage" is that early 35 mm silent film has
traditionally been measured in feet and frames; the fact that film was
measured by length in cutting rooms, and that there are 16 frames (4-perf
film format) in a foot of 35 mm film which roughly represented 1 second of
silent film, made footage a natural unit of measure for film. The term then
became used figuratively to describe moving image material of any kind.
David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917 Reference
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footage
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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:58:19 -0400
From: Carleton MacDonald <carlet...@comcast.net>
Reply-To: carlet...@comcast.net
Subject: [USMA:54296] RE: [USMA:54292] RE: [USMA:54284] FW: [USMA:54283]
RE: He won’t touch issue with 3.048-meter pole
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Probably comes from “feet of exposed film”.
cm
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SUBJECT: [USMA:54292] RE: [USMA:54284] FW: [USMA:54283] RE: He won’t
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Carleton. Actually, length is correct for one definition of footage,
but I had in mind this particular definition: a motion-picture scene or
scenes: newsreel footage; jungle footage.
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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:01 -0700
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Subject: [USMA:54290] RE: [USMA:54284] FW: [USMA:54283] RE: He won’t
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
I looked Meterage up at Dictionary dot com and the definition is
entirely different from
footage. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meterage
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:12:23 -0400
From: Carleton MacDonald <carlet...@comcast.net>
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Subject: [USMA:54285] RE: [USMA:54284] FW: [USMA:54283] RE: He won’t
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Or, just “length”.
Carleton
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3.048-meter pole
How about the following found with the help of google translate.
Meterage,
for footage
landmark, significant event, achievement, highlight, watershed,
benchmark, touchstone, for milestone
John Altounji
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Al Lawrence. In my opinion, your evaluation is accurate (and
also unfortunate). I wonder about common expressions like footage and
milestone. What words could we use in lieu of such words? Any ideas?
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 12:44:43 -0700
From: Al Lawrence <alana...@hotmail.com>
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Subject: [USMA:54282] RE: He won’t touch issue with 3.048-meter pole
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I think this sums up the attitude of most Americans perfectly. They
know a lot of things in the US are already metric, they think going
to metric seems like a good idea and that maybe someone should
finally make a decision, but in the end, they just don't want to
bother.
Al Lawrence
> Subject: [USMA:54281] He won’t touch issue with
3.048-meter pole
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:23:45 -0500
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http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/lifestyle/20140809/he-wont-touch-issue-with-3048-meter-pole
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