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In the United States, a "short film" usually means a movie between 20 and 40 minutes, while anything shorter than 20 minutes is supposedly called "short subject". The two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, though, and either can get shortened to just "shorts". The universal maximum length is 40 minutes; anything longer is a "feature film". Minimum lengths vary by region and organization.
Live-action shorts were very common in the days when cinemas ran all day and people came and left pretty much at will at any point. [[Newsreel|Newsreels]], for instance, were important and influential live-action shorts. ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' and ''[[Laurel and Hardy]]'' survived mainly on shorts; [[Walt Disney]]'s primary output until ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' was shorts. In certain DVD editions of [[Errol Flynn]]'s greatest films, ''[[Captain Blood]]'' and ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)|The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'', you can watch a bonus feature collection of film shorts that are assembled like a typical theatrical short film line up of the 1930s.
Unfortunately, shorts were paid with a set fee regardless of the audience response and were of course overshadowed by the feature films, which got the advertising. That's why [[Walt Disney]] took a chance with ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' as a feature, which could allow him to see real profits as well as to pay for the high production standards he strove for. With the rise of the double feature gradually squeezed out the shorts, leaving only the cartoons and newsreels until TV killed them off
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The term comes from the number of reels it took to play the film on a projector. Shorts were typically two reels (hence 20-40 minutes), and features were usually four to six reels (when these terms were coined, features were usually 60-90 minutes).
See also [[Short Anime Movie]]. Contrast with [[Epic Movie]].
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== Animated Shorts ==
* The ''[[Animatrix]]'' short films that flesh out ''[[The Matrix]]''.
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