Topic summary
Feature Length
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Feature film.
Description
The notion of how long a feature film should be has varied according to time and place. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute, a feature film runs for more than 40 minutes, while SAG-AFTRA says that a feature's running time is 60 minutes or longer. The Centre National de la Cinématographie in France defines it as a 35 mm film longer than 1,600 metres (5,200 ft), which is exactly 58 minutes and 29 seconds for sound films. Germany defines a feature length film as one that is at least 79 minutes long. In 1959, the British Films Fund Agency defined a short as a film of less than 3,000 ft (approx. 34 minutes); consequently, anything longer was feature-length.