Feature film

Matinee programs, especially in the US and Canada, in general, also included cartoons, at least one weekly serial and, typically, a second feature-length film on weekends.

[1] Other early feature films include Les Misérables (1909, U.S.), L'Inferno, Defence of Sevastopol, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1911), Oliver Twist (American version), Oliver Twist (British version), Richard III, From the Manger to the Cross, Cleopatra (1912), Quo Vadis?

Early features had been produced in the United States and France, but were released in individual (short film) scenes.

Some consider the 100-minute The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight to be the first documentary feature film, but it is more accurately characterized as a sports program as it included the full unedited boxing match.

It was a programme of 33 short films, with a total running time of around 75 minutes, following the training of British soldiers.

The first UK features were the documentary With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), filmed in Kinemacolor[16] and Oliver Twist (also 1912).

Since 1971, the country with the highest feature output has been India,[22] which produces a thousand films in more than twelve Indian languages each year.

[23] In 1927, Warner Bros. released the first feature-length film with sound, The Jazz Singer, whose audio track was recorded with a proprietary technology called Vitaphone.

[24] The film's success persuaded other studios to go to the considerable expense of adding microphones to their sets, and scramble to start producing their own "talkies".

[28] First used to create special effects and animated movies, digital cameras became more common on film sets in the late 1990s.

In 2002, George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones became the first major studio film shot primarily on digital video.