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feature film is a term the film industry uses to refer to a film made for initial Film distributor in Movie theater.
The
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 79th Academy Awards Rules, Rule 2: Eligibility. the American Film Institute,
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures. and the British Film InstituteDenis Giford,
The British Film Catalogue. all define a feature as a film with a running time of 40 minutes or longer. The "Centre national de la cinématographie" in
France defines it as a 35mm film which is longer than 1,600 metres, which comes out to exactly 58 minutes and 29 seconds for sound films, and the Screen Actors Guild gives a minimum running time of 80 minutes. Screen Actors Guild Letter Agreement for Low-Budget Theatrical Features. Usually a feature film is between 90 and 210 minutes; a
children's film is usually between 60 and 120 minutes. An anthology film is a fixed sequence of
short subjects with a common theme, combined into a feature film.
The term evolved from the days when the cinema-goer would watch a series of short subjects before the main film. The shorts would typically include newsreels,
Serial (film)s, animated cartoons and live-action comedies and documentaries. These types of short films would lead up to what came to be called the "featured presentation": the film given the most prominent billing and running multiple reels.
Based on length, the first feature film was the 70-minute film
The Story of the Kelly Gang (
1906 in film) from
Australia. The first European feature was the 90-minute film
L'Enfant prodigue (France, 1907), although that was basically an unmodified record of a stage play; Europe's first feature adapted directly for the screen,
Les Misérables, came from France in 1909. The first Russian feature was
Defence of Sevastopol in 1911. The first UK features were the documentary
With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), filmed in Kinemacolor, and
Oliver Twist (1912). The first American features were a different production of
Oliver Twist (1912),
From the Manger to the Cross (1912), and
Richard III (play) (1912), the latter starring actor Frederick Warde. Earlier features had been produced in America and France, but were released in individual scenes, leaving the exhibitor the option of running them together; or they were full-length records of a boxing match.The American company
Siegmund Lubin released a Passion Play in January 1903 in 31 parts, totalling about 60 minutes. The French company
Pathé released a different Passion Play,
La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ, in May 1903 in 32 parts running about 44 minutes. The first Romanian feature film was
The Independence of Romania (1912) with a record length of 2 hours. The first Asian feature was Japan's
The Life Story of Tasuke Shiobara (1912), and the first South American feature was Brazil's
O Crime dos Banhados (1913).
By 1915 over 600 features were produced annually in America. The most prolific year of U.S. feature production was
1921 in film, with 854 releases; the lowest number of releases was in 1963, with 121. Between 1922 and 1970, the U.S. and
Japan alternated as leaders in the quantity of feature film production. Since 1971, the country with the highest feature output has been
India.Patrick Robertson,
Film Facts, New York: Billboard Books, 2001, p. 15.
References
A
feature film is a term the
film industry uses to refer to a film made for initial
Film distributor in
Movie theater.
The
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 79th Academy Awards Rules, Rule 2: Eligibility. the American Film Institute,
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures. and the British Film InstituteDenis Giford,
The British Film Catalogue. all define a feature as a film with a running time of 40 minutes or longer. The "Centre national de la cinématographie" in
France defines it as a 35mm film which is longer than 1,600 metres, which comes out to exactly 58 minutes and 29 seconds for sound films, and the Screen Actors Guild gives a minimum running time of 80 minutes. Screen Actors Guild Letter Agreement for Low-Budget Theatrical Features. Usually a feature film is between 90 and 210 minutes; a children's film is usually between 60 and 120 minutes. An
anthology film is a fixed sequence of short subjects with a common theme, combined into a feature film.
The term evolved from the days when the cinema-goer would watch a series of short subjects before the main film. The shorts would typically include newsreels, Serial (film)s, animated cartoons and live-action comedies and documentaries. These types of short films would lead up to what came to be called the "featured presentation": the film given the most prominent billing and running multiple reels.
Based on length, the first feature film was the 70-minute film
The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906 in film) from Australia. The first European feature was the 90-minute film
L'Enfant prodigue (France, 1907), although that was basically an unmodified record of a stage play; Europe's first feature adapted directly for the screen,
Les Misérables, came from France in 1909. The first Russian feature was
Defence of Sevastopol in 1911. The first UK features were the documentary
With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), filmed in Kinemacolor, and
Oliver Twist (1912). The first American features were a different production of
Oliver Twist (1912),
From the Manger to the Cross (1912), and
Richard III (play) (1912), the latter starring actor Frederick Warde. Earlier features had been produced in America and France, but were released in individual scenes, leaving the exhibitor the option of running them together; or they were full-length records of a boxing match.The American company
Siegmund Lubin released a
Passion Play in January 1903 in 31 parts, totalling about 60 minutes. The French company
Pathé released a different Passion Play,
La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ, in May 1903 in 32 parts running about 44 minutes. The first Romanian feature film was
The Independence of Romania (1912) with a record length of 2 hours. The first Asian feature was Japan's
The Life Story of Tasuke Shiobara (1912), and the first South American feature was Brazil's
O Crime dos Banhados (1913).
By 1915 over 600 features were produced annually in America. The most prolific year of U.S. feature production was 1921 in film, with 854 releases; the lowest number of releases was in 1963, with 121. Between 1922 and 1970, the U.S. and
Japan alternated as leaders in the quantity of feature film production. Since 1971, the country with the highest feature output has been
India.Patrick Robertson,
Film Facts, New York: Billboard Books, 2001, p. 15.
References
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