found footage noun2 •Misplaced, forgotten, archived, or privately-owned motion picture recordings which document past events and which are subsequently rediscovered and made available for public viewing.Shrewdly mixing found footage, historical record and dramatized re-creation, One Day in People's Poland is an intriguing curio. — 2006 •A motion picture, or a segment of one, photographed in the style of an amateurish or unedited documentary.Yes, they knew it was only a movie—one that, like The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield and plenty others before it, used "found footage" to give a patina of realism to the fanciful events. — 2009
