What are feature films?

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2. CONTENTS:
DEFINITION: FEATURE FILMS
WHAT IS A FEATURE FILM?
SOME EARLY FEATURE FILMS
FIRST FEATURE FILM
GENRES OF FEATURE FILMS
BOLLYWOOD FEATURE FILMS
HOLLYWOOD FEATURE FILMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY

3. DEFINITION: FEATURE FILMS
 A feature film or theatrical film is a film (also called
a motion picture or movie) with a running time long
enough to be considered the principal or sole film to
fill a program.
 The term feature film originally referred to the
main, full-length film in a cinema program that also
included a short film and often a newsreel.

4. WHAT IS A FEATURE FILM?
 Minimum Length: 40 Minutes
 Most Feature Films, Between 70 & 210 Minutes.
 Entertainment
 Fiction
 Some FORMAT Involved
 Should Be Presented In MAINSTREAM CINEMA
Or POPULAR CINEMA.

5. SOME EARLY FEATURE FILMS
 First narrative feature film:
The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906, Australia).
 First (proto)-feature-length adaptation:
Les Misérables (1909, U.S.)
 Other early feature films:
The Inferno (L'Inferno) (1911),
Defence of Sevastopol (1911),
Quo Vadis? (1913),
Oliver Twist(1912),
Richard III (1912),
From the Manger to the Cross (1912) and
Cleopatra (1912)

6. FIRST FEATURE FILMS (SILENT)
 Bollywood
Raja Harishchandra (1913)
 Hollywood
In Old California (1910)

7. GENRES OF FEATURE FILMS
 Comedy,
 musical,
 action and western,
 romance,
 crime,
 Horror,
 science fiction.

8. FEATURE FILMS

9. HYDERABAD BLUES (1998),
1H 25MIN
 Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
 The protagonist of Hyderabad
Blues is Varun, played by the
director, Nagesh Kukunoor. The
movie revolves around his visit
home after 12 years in the USA
and his resulting culture shock.
 Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Romance

10. DO BIGHA ZAMIN (1953), 2H 11MIN
 Director: Bimal Roy
 In the hope of earning
enough money to pay off
his debts and save his
land, a poor farmer
becomes a rickshaw
puller in the Calcutta and
faces many difficulties.
 Genres: Drama

11. KABULIWALA (1961), 1H 35MIN
 Director: Hemen Gupta
 A poor Afghani leaves his
family behind to earn a living
as a dried fruit vendor in India.
Profoundly homesick, he
befriends a young girl who
reminds him of his own
daughter. Meanwhile, the
locals are distrustful of all
foreigners.
 Genres: Drama

12. FEATURE FILMS

13. FRANKENSTEIN (1931), 70 MIN
 Director: James Whale
 Henry Frankenstein is a
doctor who is trying to
discover a way to make the
dead walk. He succeeds and
creates a monster that has
to deal with living again.
 Genres:
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi

14. THE GOLD RUSH (1925), 85 MIN.
 Director: Charles Chaplin
 A lone prospector ventures into
Alaska looking for gold. He gets
mixed up with some burly
characters and falls in love with
the beautiful Georgia. He tries
to win her heart with his
singular charm.
 Genres:
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | F
amily

15. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939), 102 MIN
 Directors: Victor Fleming, George
Cukor
 In this charming film based on the
popular L. Frank Baum stories,
Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught
in a tornado's path and somehow end
up in the land of Oz. Here she meets
some memorable friends and foes in
her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz
who everyone says can help her return
home and possibly grant her new
friends their goals of a brain, heart
and courage.
 Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy |
Musical

16. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 https://www.imdb.com/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_film

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