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In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie. The term is also used for feature length, direct-to-video and television movie productions.
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. The American company S. Lubin released a Passion Play in January 1903 in 31 parts, totaling about 60 minutes. The French company Pathé Frères released a different Passion Play, ''La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ'', in May 1903 in 32 parts running about 44 minutes. There were also full-length records of boxing matches, such as ''The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight'' (1897).
Defined by length, the first dramatic feature film was the Australian 70-minute film ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' (1906). Similarly, the first European feature was the 90-minute film ''L'Enfant prodigue'' (France, 1907), although that was an unmodified record of a stage play; Europe's first feature adapted directly for the screen, ''Les Misérables'', came from France in 1909. The first Russian feature was ''Defence of Sevastopol'' in 1911. The first UK features were the documentary ''With Our King and Queen Through India'' (1912), filmed in Kinemacolor, and ''Oliver Twist'' (1912). 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. The first Asian feature was Japan's ''The Life Story of Tasuke Shiobara'' (1912), the first Indian feature was ''Raja Harishchandra'' (1913), 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). 1913 also saw China's first feature film, Zhang Shichuan's ''Nan Fu Nan Qi''.
By 1915 over 600 features were produced annually in the United States. The most prolific year of U.S. feature production was 1921, with 682 releases; the lowest number of releases was in 1963, with 213. Between 1922 and 1970, the U.S. and Japan alternated as leaders in the quantity of feature film production. Since 1971, the country with the highest feature output has been India, which produces a thousand films in more than twelve Indian languages each year.
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