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Back before home video recorders became widespread these would sometimes be released to cinemas as feature films. As home videos became more common, these were increasingly released as direct-to-video
A [[Compilation Movie]] can also be used in serialized TV to combine all the episodes of a serial into a single "movie", if the serial was very long then the resulting [[Compilation Movie]] may be essentially a feature length [[Clip Show]]. In the mecha anime genre, these movies are pretty much still par for the course. In the case of [[Soap Opera]]s that are aired several times a week, a compilation at the end of the week may be the only repeat. This is preferable to a a back-to-back showing as it avoids viewers leaving after only the first episode, and in theory allows more advertisements where the credits used to be.
In the 1970s and 80s, this was a not-uncommon method of making a [[Macekre]] of an imported Japanese anime series.
While the pacing of these movies are often quite suspect, especially in a series where there was originally a cliffhanger, new scenes are sometimes added to justify their release.▼
▲While the pacing of these movies
This is sometimes inverted by editing an extended episode or [[Direct to Video]] movie into several episodes for [[Edited for Syndication|for Syndication]], leaving a several [["What?" Cliffhanger|odd cliffhangers]] [[Screwed by the Network|if this wasn't intended during production]].
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* Variation: The American release known as ''[[Digimon]]: [[The Movie]]'' was made by editing together the first three [[Short Anime Movie]]s from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]''. ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'''s movie originally wasn't going to be included but [[Executive Meddling|Higher ups]] insisted that the 3rd movie be included. No one in the dubbing process realized that the only people who would be watching the movie were people who were planning to see the film anyway (and wouldn't have minded the extra footage required for decent editing (especially of the 3rd part) that had been taken out due to length concerns) or critics. To make matters, worse anybody who's seen the 3rd part, knows how crudely it was edited. (This doesn't apply to the first two parts.)Clips were taken out of context, and an entire subplot was completely destroyed. In short this is one film that could have it edited and improved by remixing it. (But not the lines, just the editing cuts.)
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion: Death and Rebirth]]'' is kind of a corner case, containing parts of both the show and [[The Movie]].
** The reason why ''Death and Rebirth'' happened was because Hideaki Anno felt that the Japanese public's memory needed to be refreshed regarding the events of the series, considering ''End of Evangelion'' was due for release soon and the series had ended a year
** Then came ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'', a remake of the old series in the form of four movies. The first simply covered the first six episodes, while giving Ramiel a serious [[Took a Level in Badass|badass upgrade]], the second started going [[Off the Rails]] at about the time
* ''[[Gundam]]'' loves doing it. There were compilation movies of the [[Mobile Suit Gundam|original series]], [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Zeta Gundam]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Endless Waltz]], [[Turn A Gundam|Turn a Gundam]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]], and [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Gundam SEED Destiny]]. 0083 and Endless Waltz are an odd cases, since they were originally OVAs rather than full TV series like the others.
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* ''[[RahXephon]]: The Movie'' edited together whole episodes with new scenes and had a different ending.
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* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' has two Compilation Movies, each around two hours in length. The first, ''Gurren-hen'' or ''Childhood's End'', covers the first half of the series, streamlining the plot and restructuring it after episode eight. The second, ''Lagann-hen'' or ''The Lights in the Sky Are Stars'', is a semi-aversion, containing more new film animation than it does recycled TV animation. It spans the invasion of Teppelin and battle with Lordgenome to the end of the series, {{spoiler|bringing the scale of the final battle to even greater heights}}. To the disappointment of some fans, the movies were never dubbed.
* When Funimation first aired ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' in the U.S., the five-episode Raditz arc that started the series was edited into a single movie released on home video titled ''Dragon Ball Z: Arrival''
** An inversion: the ''DBZ'' [[Short Anime Movie]] ''Tree of Might'' was initially shown in the U.S. as a three-part episode back when the series was syndicated.
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* One of the ''[[Stratos 4]]'' movies does this for the first season and the movies before it.
* ''[[Space Carrier Blue Noah]]'' was dubbed as ''Thundersub'' and the first four episodes were compiled to be released on VHS tape together after being shown altogether as one large movie pilot on American TV.
* ''[[Death Note]]'' got two compilations, the first supposedly a look at the first half of the anime from Ryuk's perspective with a bit of extra footage implying Light [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|became a Shinigami]] after
* The movie edition of ''[[Macross Plus]]'' is arguably the only example of this in the Macross franchise as all others have been [[Alternate Continuity]] [[Non-Serial Movie|non-serial movies]].
* ''[[Inazuma Eleven]]'' had its first movie consist of mostly recycled footage of the first season, before finally swerving off to an [[Alternate Continuity]]. [[Broken Base|Some fans liked it, but others weren't impressed]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* Many movie serials of the 30s, 40s and 50s were later
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* The ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'' compilation ''Secret Wars'' just barely qualifies as a stand-alone story, as it consists of the last five episodes (the three-part "Secret Wars" adaptation, followed by the two-part "Spider Wars") of a serialized TV series. However, it is particularly notable for cramming five half-hour episodes onto a single VHS tape.
* An unusual case happened for the [[Series Finale]] of ''[[Justice League]]''. For the US release, ''Starcrossed'' had it's three-part episodes edited together into one single long 60-minute (or so) movie for it's first DVD release, complete with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plDfvYO7npE an entirely new opening credits sequence] and was advertised as "Starcrossed: The Movie". When it was released in the UK, the cover of the DVD indicated that this is exactly what had been released there as well; but nope, it had all three episodes UNEDITED, playing in a continuous manner.
* ''[[Dennis the Menace
* The '' entirety'' of the first ''[[Redwall]]'' cartoon series got compiled into a single movie.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'''s "A Sitch In Time" three part arc was billed as a movie when Disney aired it. It even got its own DVD.
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