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Understanding Feature Films: A Quiz on Film Industry Basics

Test your knowledge of feature films and the film industry with this engaging quiz. Explore the history, definitions, and key facts about feature films.

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1 In the film industry, a feature film is a ________ made for initial distribution in theaters and being the "main attraction" of the screening (as opposed to any short films which may be screened before it).

2 Since 1971, the country with the highest feature output has been ________,[19] which produces a thousand films in more than twelve Indian languages each year.

3 Based on length, the first dramatic feature film was the 70-minute film The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) from ________.

4 and ________ alternated as leaders in the quantity of feature film production.

5 [11] The first American features were a different production of ________ (1912), From the Manger to the Cross (1912), and Richard III (1912), the latter starring actor Frederick Warde.

6 The ________,[1] the American Film Institute,[2] and the British Film Institute[3] all define a feature as a film with a running time of 40 minutes or longer.

7 The shorts would typically include newsreels, serials, ________ and live-action comedies and documentaries.

8 The American company S. Lubin released a ________ in January 1903 in 31 parts, totalling about 60 minutes.

9 The term is also used for feature length, ________ and television movie productions.

10 [8] The first Russian feature was ________ in 1911.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • innovative Indian film director Ritwik Ghatak's first feature film Nagarik premiered after his death, twenty-four years after it was made.
  • in 1914, Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film.
  • Danish film director Pernille Fischer Christensen's first feature film, about the relationship between a beauty shop owner and a transvestite, won a Silver Bear prize at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival.
  • the 1948 film Terri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India.
  • the 2001 feature film Cupid's Mistake was produced on a budget of US$980.
  • wealthy newspaper publisher Joe Knowland played a prison guard in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz, at the age of 49.
  • the first feature film of director Paul Verhoeven is Business Is Business, a 1971 comedy film about two prostitutes in Amsterdam.
  • the Telugu film Amma Cheppindi was inspired by the science fiction story Flowers for Algernon.
  • Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad.
  • Tiefland, Leni Riefenstahl’s last full-feature film, made it into the Guiness Book of World Records on account of its long production time.
  • Kishan Shrikanth, age ten, is in the process of directing a Kannada-language feature film, C/o Footpath, which will almost certainly make him the youngest director ever to release a commercial feature film.
  • Herne Bay Pier was the setting for the opening sequence of Ken Russell's first feature film French Dressing.
  • Bogdan Žižić is the only film director whose first two feature films both won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film.
  • Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay, Half Nelson.
  • William Wadsworth Hodkinson (pictured) merged 11 film rental bureaus in 1914 to form Paramount Pictures, the first U.S.-wide distributor of feature films.
  • Singapore Dreaming bagged Singapore its first IFFPA-recognised award at an international feature film festival.
  • Handling Ships, the first animated British Technicolor feature film, was never meant to be released to theatres but was an "Official Selection" at Cannes in 1946.
  • Avakai Biryani marked the debut of Anish Kuruvilla as a feature film director and Bindu Madhavi as a mainstream actress in Telugu cinema.
  • Safi Faye's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman.
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