In the film industry, a feature film is a film made for initial distribution in theaters and being the "main attraction" of the screening (as opposed to any short films which may be screened before it). The film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking i A film distributor is an independent company a Subsidiary company or occasionally an individual which acts as the final agent between a film production company Cinemaaustraliajpg|thumb|A movie theater in Australia ]]A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre or cinema is a venue

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,^[1] the American Film Institute,^[2] and the British Film Institute^[3] all define a feature as a film with a running time of 40 minutes or longer. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization ostensibly dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of Motion The American Film Institute ( AFI) is an independent Non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 The British Film Institute ( BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film television The "Centre national de la cinématographie" in France defines it as a 35 mm 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. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Screen Actors Guild ( SAG) is an American labor union representing over 120000 Film and television principal performers and background ^[4] Today, a feature film is usually between 90 and 210 minutes; a children's film is usually between 60 and 120 minutes. A children's film is a film aimed for children as its audience An anthology film is a fixed sequence of short subjects with a common theme, combined into a feature film. An anthology film, or omnibus film or portmanteau film is a Film consisting of several different short films often tied together by only a single theme Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American Film industry in the early period of cinema.

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, serials, animated cartoons and live-action comedies and documentaries. A newsreel is a Documentary film that is regularly released in a public presentation place containing filmed News stories Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials or Film serials, were Short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a Feature An animated cartoon is a short hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn Film for the cinema, Television or computer 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. A reel is an object around which lengths of another material (usually long and flexible are wound for storage

Early proto-features had been produced in America and France, but were released in individual scenes, leaving the exhibitor the option of running them together;^[5] or they were full-length records of a boxing match.

Based on length, the first feature film was the 70-minute film The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) from Australia. The Story of the Kelly Gang is generally regarded as the world's first feature length film preceding D For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. 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. L'Enfant prodigue (France 1907) ( The Prodigal Son) was the first feature -length motion picture produced in Europe running 90 Les Misérables (pronounced /le miːzeʁabl(ə translated variously from French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched The first Russian feature was Defence of Sevastopol in 1911. Defence of Sevastopol (Оборона Севастополя or Воскресший Севастополь is a 1911 historical war film about the Siege The first UK features were the documentary With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), filmed in Kinemacolor, and Oliver Twist (1912). With Our King and Queen Through India ( 1912) is a British documentary Silent film. Kinemacolor was the first successful colour Motion picture process used commercially from 1908 to 1914 Oliver Twist (1838 is Charles Dickens' second Novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a serial The first American features were a different production of Oliver Twist (1912), From the Manger to the Cross (1912), and Richard III (1912), the latter starring actor Frederick Warde. Oliver Twist (1838 is Charles Dickens' second Novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a serial From the Manger to the Cross or Jesus of Nazareth is a 1912 American Motion picture filmed on location in Palestine Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591 Frederick Barkham Warde ( 23 February 1851, Wardington, Oxfordshire, England - 7 February 1935, Brooklyn The first Romanian feature film was The Independence of Romania (1912). Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania The first Asian feature was Japan's The Life Story of Tasuke Shiobara (1912), the first South American feature was Brazil's O Crime dos Banhados (1913), and the first African feature was South Africa's Die Voortrekkers (1916).

By 1915 over 600 features were produced annually in America. The most prolific year of U. S. feature production was 1921, 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. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Since 1971, the country with the highest feature output has been India. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country ^[6]

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References

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