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Part of poetic line appearing ahead of time in film part (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

footage

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'part' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Part of film' mean 'footage' so perhaps 'part' could also mean 'footage')

'part of poetic line appearing ahead of time in film' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'part' could be 'foot' (foot is a kind of part) and 'foot' is found in the answer.
'time' could be 'age' (an age is a period of time) and 'age' is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for footage that I've seen before include "Quantity of film (of event)" , "Piece of filmed material" , "Part of film" , "Length of film" , "Film that has been shot" .)

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