"In the beginning, all films were short." - an interesting article from The Telegraph reports on the long history of short films http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-life/7593291/The-long-history-of-short-films.html To sum it up, it was the 20th century that seen films to get longer as since the very first films presented to the public in 1894 through Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, a peepshow-like device for individual viewing they were all very short one-shot “actuality” or “interest” films depicting celebrities, royal processions, travelogues, current affairs and scenes from everyday life. However in the early 1900s, improvements in recording and editing technology allowed film-makers to produce longer, multi-shot films and after about 1910 onwards, studio competition and audience demand induced film-makers to make even longer, multi-reel films and the first features were born. Now-a- days short films have fallen out of favour with commercial cinemas but thei...
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