film clip
Brief cinema segment
A film clip is a short excerpt from a movie or video recording, typically selected to illustrate a point or provide a preview: They showed film clips from his early westerns.
News programs use film clips as evidence or illustration.
The term persists even for digital video that was never actually on film.
- footageRecorded video material
- archive footagePreserved historical recordings
- sceneDramatic unit or locale
- montageAssembled sequence of images
- trailerPromotional film excerpt
reel · snippet · sound bite · excerpt · sequence · cutaway · outtake · highlight · behind the scenes · screen test · preview · spliced · edit · jump cut · final cut · playback · cinema · movie
length/completeness
film clipfeature film
Standard-length theatrical release
uncut version · director's cut · miniseries · epic · whole picture
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