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Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade (1933) is a Warner Bros. pre-Code musical comedy directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell, with Busby Berkeley numbers including By a Waterfall and Shanghai Lil; third of the 1933 backstage musicals, National Film Registry 1992.

Footlights

The Cambridge Footlights is the University of Cambridge's student sketch comedy society, founded 1883, rival to the ADC, home of the May Week revue, smokers, and the Tour Show, and alumnus source for Python, Beyond the Fringe, and Perrier-winning revues.

Footloose

Footloose (1984) is a Paramount drama-musical directed by Herbert Ross, written by Dean Pitchford, starring Kevin Bacon as a Chicago teen fighting a small town's dancing ban, inspired by Elmore City, Oklahoma; it grossed $80 million and spawned a 2011 remake.

Footloose (2011 film)

Footloose is a 2011 American dance drama directed by Craig Brewer and a remake of the 1984 film, starring Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, and Dennis Quaid.

Footloose (musical)

Footloose is a 1998 Broadway musical by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie, with music by Tom Snow, adapted from Pitchford's 1984 film about a town that bans dancing; it ran 709 performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

Footloose (song)

"Footloose" is an uptempo pop-rock song performed by Kenny Loggins for the 1984 film Footloose, where it plays over the opening credits, and an Academy Award nominee.

Footman

Footman: a liveried male domestic servant of grand British and European households, serving at table, at the door, and behind the family carriage; known for elaborate livery, wages of about £17–21 around 1829, and survival in the Royal Household.

Footnote (הערת שוליים)

Footnote (הערת שוליים, Hearat Shulayim) is Joseph Cedar's 2011 Israeli film about rival Talmud scholar father and son Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik and a mistaken Israel Prize. Cannes Best Screenplay winner, nine Ophirs, Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

Footpath (2003 film)

Footpath is a 2003 Hindi crime thriller directed by Vikram Bhatt, produced by Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt, released 15 August 2003. It marked Emraan Hashmi's film debut and was a box-office dud, adapted from Angaaray and underworld themes.

Footprint model (micrometeorology)

A footprint model estimates the upwind surface area, or source area, contributing to a turbulent flux measured at a point above the ground, most often at an eddy-covariance tower.

Footprinting

Footprinting is a bench technique for locating protein-binding sites on DNA or RNA, where a bound protein shields its site from cleavage; Galas and Schmitz first reported it in 1978.

Footprints (poem)

"Footprints in the Sand" is a Christian allegorical poem about the Lord carrying the speaker through hardship. Authorship is disputed among Mary Stevenson (1936), Burrell Webb (1958), Carolyn Carty (1963), and Margaret Fishback Powers (1964), with litigation in 2008.

Footspeed

Footspeed: running speed as the product of stride length and stride frequency. Measured by 10-30 m sprint tests and flying sprints with timing gates or radar; above 7 m/s gains shift to stride frequency.

Footstep planning

Footstep planning is the task of computing a sequence of foot placements that carries a legged robot to a goal while avoiding obstacles and loss of balance.

Footwear

Footwear is a garment worn on the feet for protection, comfort, and decoration. The oldest known leather shoe, the Areni-1 shoe from Armenia, dates to about 5,500 years ago.

Fop

A fop is an old-fashioned term for a vain man obsessively concerned with dress and manners. From mid-15th-century 'fool', its dandy sense dates to the 1670s; the 18th-century stereotype, its stage role, and successor the dandy.

Foping Biosphere Reserve

Foping Biosphere Reserve, a 2004 UNESCO MAB site in Foping County, Shaanxi, on the southern Qinling Mountains; 72,443 ha montane forest protecting one of the densest giant panda subpopulations, plus takin and golden snub-nosed monkey.

For a European Future

For a European Future is a center-left, pro-European electoral coalition led by the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, with 14 parties in the 2024 North Macedonian parliamentary election.

For a Few Dollars More

For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più) is Sergio Leone's 1965 spaghetti western, second in the Dollars trilogy, starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as bounty hunters pursuing El Indio, with an Ennio Morricone score built on pocket-watch chimes.

For All Kings

For All Kings is the eleventh studio album by thrash metal band Anthrax, released February 26, 2016 via Nuclear Blast and Megaforce. Produced by Jay Ruston, it was the band's first with guitarist Jon Donais and stood as their latest album until Cursum Perficio (2026).

For All Mankind (TV series)

For All Mankind is an Apple TV+ alternate-history drama created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi, premiering November 1, 2019, in which the Soviets land on the Moon first in 1969 and the space race never ends; five seasons have aired, with a sixth and final season and the Star City spinoff announced.

For All the Dogs

For All the Dogs is Drake's eighth studio album, released October 6, 2023 on OVO Sound/Republic: 23 songs, 84:50, cover art by his son Adonis, delayed from September 22, Pitchfork 6.5, Metacritic 52, Scary Hours Edition deluxe in November 2023.

For an Angel (music)

"For an Angel" is a trance track by German producer Paul van Dyk, first released in 1994 on his album 45 RPM and made famous by his 1998 E-Werk Remix.

For Bread Alone

For Bread Alone (Arabic: al-Khubz al-ḥāfī, "Bare Bread") is an autobiographical novel by Mohamed Choukri recounting hunger and street life in Tangier and a turn toward literacy.

For Colored Girls

For Colored Girls is a 2010 American drama film directed by Tyler Perry, adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 choreopoem, following nine Black women confronting abuse and betrayal in Harlem.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf is Ntozake Shange's choreopoem of 20 poems for seven color-named Black women, first staged in 1974, a 1976 Broadway Tony nominee later adapted for PBS in 1982, film in 2010, and Broadway revival in 2022.

For Dummies

For Dummies: long-running instructional book series begun with DOS For Dummies (Dan Gookin, IDG Books, November 1991), known for yellow-and-black covers, plain-language style, now published by Wiley with over 250 million copies in print.

For Eagle Brothers

For Eagle Brothers (독수리 5형제를 부탁해!), also called Please Take Care of the Five Eagle Brothers, is a 2025 KBS2 weekend family drama starring Uhm Ji-won and Ahn Jae-wook, 54 episodes, aired February 1 to August 3, 2025.

For Emma, Forever Ago

For Emma, Forever Ago is Bon Iver's debut album, recorded by Justin Vernon alone over three months in a Wisconsin hunting cabin with one Shure SM57 and Pro Tools; self-released 2007, Jagjaguwar wide release February 19, 2008, nine songs, Platinum.

For Fun

For Fun (找乐, also Looking for Fun) is a 1992/1993 Chinese comedy directed by Ning Ying, produced by Beijing Film Studio, about retired Beijing men forming an amateur Peking opera troupe; FIPRESCI Prize at Berlin, screened IFFR 1994.