Sentence examples for familiar footage from inspiring English sources

So it is with this watchable but generic film exploring nature's autumn preparations via some very familiar footage of grizzlies hunting salmon and seabirds plunging off cliffs.

To illustrate the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, the series forgoes the familiar footage and instead shows young Eugene McCarthy supporters reacting to the news on television, some frozen in shock, others weeping.

I question whether music videos will have the driving power that viral video has for YouTube; staged, familiar footage seems likely to be watched once and unlikely to be passed on to others.

The most familiar footage is possibly of the fire that started on April 19 in downtown Grand Forks, surrounded by floodwaters, where eleven buildings and sixty apartments were destroyed.

For those that are fans of the Discovery/BBC Planet Earth documentary series, you will see some familiar footage, though weaved into a narrative with three lead characters: a polar bear, a humpback whale, and an elephant.

ON THE SCREEN -- Like many of the commercials Mr. Corzine ran during the Democratic primary, both use now-familiar footage of Mr. Corzine walking in diners, schoolhouses and police stations as an acoustic guitar plays in the background.

The defense also showed, over prosecutors' objections, familiar video footage shot from a helicopter gunship in Iraq as it fired on people on the ground, including two Reuters journalists who were killed.

There is none of the familiar, expected footage: Shoah includes no archive material at all, none of those now-stock images of skeletal inmates or corpses piled into small mountains.

Last year brought the première of his short "Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman" at BAMcinemaFEST (a crucial annual showcase for independent films) as well as "Declaration of War," a brilliant tweaking of familiar archival footage (in this case, President George W. Bush's "war on terror" address) into a hilarious but incisively critical strangeness.

She thought to wonder if this home movie was some crude living likeness of the mind's own technology, the sort of death plot that runs in the mind, because it seemed so familiar, the footage did — it seemed a thing we might see, not see but know, a model of the nights when we are intimate with our own dying.

Today, we are familiar with footage from far-flung battle zones reaching us at home, but in 1916 this was a novelty.