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1In 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.
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3Live-action shorts were very common in the days when cinemas ran all day and people would often come and leave at any point. The types could be included in a regular program were {{Newsreel}}s, comedy shorts like ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' and ''Creator/LaurelAndHardy'', musicals that are a ''de facto'' ConcertFilm focusing on some particular music act, and cartoons such as Creator/WaltDisney's primary output until ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' was shorts. In certain home video editions of vintage Creator/{{Disney}} and Creator/WarnerBros-owned films, you can watch a bonus feature collection of film shorts that are assembled like a typical theatrical short film line up of the appropriate decade.
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5Unfortunately, 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 Creator/WaltDisney 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 the shorts were gradually squeezed out, leaving only the cartoons and newsreels until television killed them off.
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7Short films nowadays tend to be student, independent projects, or from public institutions like the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada, often short in time and budget. It's a challenging medium in which to work, given the constraints, but like all media, it has its perks. Short films are great training projects for beginners since they are easier to make than a feature film, and can be very personally rewarding, considering the filmmakers can go wild with crazy ideas that they don't have to sustain for a feature film or a series. Major studios like Walt Disney Pictures in the past with their ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' and {{Creator/Pixar}} now also use them as a good way to try out new film techniques before using them in features. Most WebOriginal projects could easily be called short films; so could some entries in LeFilmArtistique.
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9Most films made specifically for novelty/large-screen formats such as [=IMAX=] -- nature and science documentaries, performance art showcases, animated shorts/compilations, etc. -- and screened in museums or amusement/theme parks, rather than given mainstream theatrical releases, are short films. With [=IMAX=], this was partially due to the logistics of changing the giant reels of film it required until digital filmmaking/projection came along and made it much easier for mainstream films to be released in the format, but the short film format persists for other productions.
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11However, the short film has had a bit of a semi-revival as mainstream fare, such as the aforementioned WebOriginal films on sites like Platform/YouTube. In addition, Pixar, Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, and Creator/WarnerBros have regularly produced animated shorts for both theatrical release, as TV special material, and as DVDBonusContent. In Canada, there is Moviola, a cable TV channel that features ''only'' film shorts. In Japan, studios will publish several {{Anime}} shorts together, each running 30 minutes or more, as double or even triple features.
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13The 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).
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21* The first six ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' movies were rather short, padded out by the Pokémon-centric shorts before each one.
22* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
23** The movies are probably the most famous examples. All 3 original ''Manga/DragonBall'' movies are 45-60 minutes and 12 of the 13 original ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' movies are the same length.
24** There are currently only 4 exceptions. The first ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan Broly]]'' movie was 70 minutes, the 10th Anniversary ''Dragon Ball'' film (''[[Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower The Path to Power]]'') was 80 minutes, and the recent ''Dragon Ball Z'' movie, ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle Of Gods]]'', was 85 minutes in theaters, with an extended 105-minute version on TV and home video. ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection ‘F’]]'' was 95 minutes.
25* Out of 11 ''Manga/DoctorSlump'' movies, only one (the second) was a full length feature. The rest had running times from ''five''(!) to 60 minutes.
26* The ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' franchise has nine movies in this vein - two each for ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' (the first of which was a PilotMovie), ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' and ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', one each for ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' and ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', and the standalone ''Anime/DigimonXEvolution''; ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' has no films. All of them save the ''Adventure'' movies and the first ''Tamers'' movie [[note]] and the 5th overall, named "Battle of Adventurer's"[[/note]] are {{non serial movie}}s. The American release known as ''Digimon: TheMovie'' is just a [[{{Macekre}} rather odd]] [[{{Frankenslation}} edit and splice]] of the first three.
27** This results in some weird plot changes. In the original Japanese, the films had no real link between them. In the dub version, all the segments are linked together flimsily by saying that the computer virus that created Diaboramon was also responsible for the events in the other segments. Within the ''Digimon'' universe this makes practically no sense.
28* The very first ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' film, produced by Toei following their short-lived [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries "Season 0"]] series (as opposed to Studio Gallop's later, more popular take on the franchise), clocks in at about half an hour.
29* The first three ''Franchise/OnePiece'' movies were all similar in length to Digimon movies, because the first three ''One Piece'' movies were double features with the first three Digimon movies (from the fourth One Piece movie on, they were pretty much full length, while Digimon movies pretty much remained half length).
30** However, after [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld a 115 minute epic]] written by the manga's author, Creator/EiichiroOda, ''Anime/OnePiece3DStrawHatChase'' is only 30 minutes long, reverting back to the double feature format (this time with ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''), albeit in 3-D.
31* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' appeared as two very short "introductory" films before it actually began broadcasting.
32* ''Anime/DiGiCharatATripToThePlanet'' was logically about four times as long as a typical episode... making it just short of half an hour. It was typically shown as a triple feature alongside ''[[Literature/{{Slayers}} The Slayers Premium]]'' (itself only about 7 minutes longer than a typical ''Slayers'' episode) and ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie''.
33* The ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' franchise has several of these. ''The Motion Picture'' itself is only 70 minutes long. The three other ''Slayers'' movies – ''Return'', ''Great'', and ''Gorgeous'' – all clock in at around an hour apiece. ''Slayers Premium'' is only a half hour long, being shown as a part of a festival, with the DVD cut being 8 minutes longer.
34* "The Very Short ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' Movie" features big-budget animation (much of the cast looked OffModel, though, since the film was made before the series premiered, serving as something of a preview, never mind the fact it takes place during second year, as revealed by the hairstyle Tomo was wearing at the time, yet mashed together plots from all around the series), but is the length of a single segment in a regular episode, making it a shade under six minutes long.
35* The ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' movie lasted barely over 30 minutes. Why, one can only wonder, since it seemed to move a ''tad'' bit too fast.
36** Made worse if you see the interviews with the original cast and director: whey asked to state their favorite parts, most of them respond that it's hard to choose, because the movie had to pack so much into a short time frame. The obvious question of "why not make it longer?" is never asked.
37*** Simple answer: many studios screened this film alongside the ''Manga/XxxHolic'' movie, another CLAMP title, which was also noticeably short, only an hour long. The two movies [[LowerDeckEpisode share a scene between them]]. Maybe they were supposed to be a package deal.
38* The ''Anime/{{Macross 7}}'' movie was the length of a single 30-minute episode, and was taken from a script idea that there hadn't been time or budget to include in the main run of the series. It's set in the middle of the action, before the big GrandFinale fight.
39* The third ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' movie, ''Team Ranma vs. The Legendary Phoenix''. It's about a half hour long, and in the US it was sold as an OAV and packaged with other {{OAV}}s, even changing the opening and closing sequences.
40* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' had two movies of normal length and one (''Anime/DaughterOfDarkness'') that was only an hour (shown as a double feature with ''Slayers Great'').
41* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' had both a short movie and a second movie whose length is normal by Western standards. The short movie resembled a TV episode in length, but had a standalone movie-style plot. This movie was a double feature even when released in America, being packaged with the ''Ninku'' movie.
42* The ''Soreike! Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' theatrical features are consistently 51 minutes long, but they are shown together with a 20-minute-long short film. This was not always the case - the film from 1990, ''Baikinman no gyakushuu'', ran at least 80 minutes.
43* A 20-30 minute ''[[ShowWithinAShow Gekiganger 3]]'' movie was included in supplemental material to ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', on top of the OriginalVideoAnimation release of the ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' "series".
44* ''Noiseman Sound Insect'' is an actual short movie the length of a normal anime episode, but with all the values and the budget of a full feature film.
45* The two ''Pretty Cure Max Heart'' movies clock in at 70 minutes apiece; the ''Splash Star'' movie doesn't even break an hour.
46** Most movies from the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise last 70 minutes, but at least two of the ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' films (the second and third) last 74 minutes.
47* ''Anime/SeaCat1988'' is a 21 minute anime film meant to be used in schools to educate about the dangers of nuclear warfare.
48* ''Anime/VoicesOfADistantStar'', at 25 minutes. Notable for having been done by [[Creator/MakotoShinkai just one guy]] and his Mac, except for (obviously) the soundtrack and the voice acting on the DVD release. His 2007 film ''Anime/FiveCentimetersPerSecond'' also counts, with a runtime of just over an hour, divided into three "episodes." ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords'' is a mere 46 minutes long, and, indeed, the short length was the one aspect of it that Western reviewers consistently disliked. (Ironically, he made this one relatively short partly due to [[MortonsFork complaints that his longer movies were lower-quality]].)
49* ''Literature/{{Inukami}}'' had one. The movie was the length of an average TV episode, except with a little more at stake than your average TV episode and a slightly bigger budget. Namely, the CensorBox elephant was CG and chrome.
50* The ''New Maple Town Story: Palm Town Chapter'' "movie" is actually the series' ''first episode'' padded out with scenes from Maple Town Story's final two episodes in place of the original flashback sequence. That was common practice up to (probably) the late '80s/early '90s.
51** The ''Lady Lady'' movie is similar to the above example, the four (!) ''Attack No. 1'' movies were slight re-edits of two to three episodes each, while the ''Tongari Boushi no Memol'' movie is actually just a summary episode.
52* Creator/ToeiAnimation produced masses of very short original movies for their popular TV shows. One of the shortest might be the ''Anime/MahouShojoLalabel'' movie, clocking in at 15 minutes.
53* ''Literature/KinosJourney'' has two 30-minute movies.
54* ''[[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Hetalia: Paint It, White]]'' would be just under an hour long, about the length of two regular half-hour episodes, without the clips from the series thrown in. Given the source material, they didn't have a lot to work with, but wanted a feature-length film. The move proved controversial in Japan and the Japanese DVD release removed the clip show parts, but the American release includes them.
55* ''Anime/BloodTheLastVampire'' is a rare example that actually got shown in American theatres, likely due to very high production values.
56* [[/index]]Also applies to {{Toku}} movies, since the genre has a lot in common with anime. Traditionally both the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchises have movies released in the summer and released as a double feature with ''Super Sentai'' getting the short end of the stick with run-times clocking at roughly 30 minutes (without commercials, regular episodes clock in around 21-22 minutes) while the ''Kamen Rider'' feature runs between 45 minutes to about an hour.
57** Early ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' movies (before the ''Ohranger Vs Kakuranger'' movie became the standard for Sentai crossover films) were essentially ''regular episodes'' played on the big screen with little to no changes. [[Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger Goranger]] had this the worst with ''four'' "movies" which were just episodes of the TV show.
58** ''Franchise/KamenRider'' has been moving away from this somewhat starting with ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' and ''Series/KamenRiderDouble''. In addition to their summer movies, Decade's finale was incorporated a part of a standalone ''Kamen Rider'' movie that crossed over with W, but even that didn't completely escape this, running as three distinct segments (one for Decade, one for W and team-up) that run about half an hour each. This soon became the ''Movie War'' series, each coming out in the winter and would feature an EarlyBirdCameo of the current season's Secondary Rider.[[index]]
59** This dates back to the original ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' - while there wasn't any original content made for theaters, there were theatrical screenings of television episodes so that viewers had a chance to watch them on the big screen and in color, which was a draw when most Japanese households still had black-and-white televisions. Creator/{{Toho}} distributed many to accompany Franchise/{{Godzilla}} films.
60* Some of Creator/{{Sanrio}}'s theatrical films fall into this. The Cinnamoroll movie was 45 minutes and was screened with ''Nezumi Monogatari'' (''Nezumi Monogatari: Jôji to Jerarudo no bouken''). The ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'' movie was this too, as it was screened with ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody: Yu and Ai''.
61* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' had two of these during the ''Sharp'' and ''Motto'' seasons. The first one was screened with ''Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!!'' and ''Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals'', while the second was screened between the ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' and ''Kinnikuman'' movies. The Sharp movie was 27 minutes long while the Motto movie was 26.[[/index]]
62* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': The first 3 movies clock in at just an hour and were shown as part of the [[Creator/ToeiAnimation Winter Toei Animation Fair]] series. The first and third have 10-minute shorts before the movies to pad out the run-times some. [[index]]
63** ''Anime/SailorMoonRTheMovie''
64** ''Anime/SailorMoonSTheMovie''
65** ''Anime/SailorMoonSuperSTheMovie''
66* ''[[Anime/CuteyHoney Cutey Honey Flash]]'' got a 38-minute film as part of the Toei Summer Anime Fair.
67* Averted with the ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' films except for ''Anime/TamagotchiHontoNoHanashi'' (which was shown with the Cutie Honey Flash film mentioned above) and ''Anime/EigaTamagotchiHimitsuNoOtodokeDaiSakusen'', which is an actual short film about 10 minutes in length and was screened with the ''[[Anime/KamisamaMinaraiHimitsuNoCocotama Himitsu no Cocotama]]'' movie. Other than those, all ''Tamagotchi'' films run 90 minutes.
68* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2013'' is only 26 minutes long and had a limited two week engagement in Japanese theaters. It's sequel, ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademiaTheEnchantedParade'', is a bit longer, but it still only clocks in at 53 minutes.
69* Sometimes this will happen with non-Japanese franchises aimed at children that are screened in theaters.
70** The ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' films after ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'' round out at an hour, and would be shown in theaters as part of the program [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidtoon_Films Kidtoon Films]] in North America, or as [[http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/another-stupid-movie-to-overreact-to.51813/page-4#post-928554 two-day limited engagements]] in the United Kingdom. [[http://www.awn.com/news/thomas-tank-engine-track-big-screen-event There was also a Fathom Events screening]] that was an hour long and was made up of a episodes that were then new to North American audiences.
71*** Many movies screened by Kidtoon Films, not just the Thomas ones, fall under this trope as well. They were padded out with shorts that were either related or unrelated to the film, while some, such as the Barbie films (up until The Princess and the Popstar), just ran by themselves due to the films each running around 70 minutes or more (The Pearl Princess would later be released alone by Screenvision). Two of the shortest films were [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship and]] [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfChuckAndFriends Adventures]], being the first two episodes of each show combined, and Kidtoons Comics, a 65-minute collection of short films, which could as well be the American counterpart to the Toei Animation fairs.
72** Each ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' film runs 70 minutes and the first two were given a run in theaters a month before the video release.
73** [=BMG=] Video ran their kids' properties as part of Century Theaters' summer kids club in the late 90's, which included their version of ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'', Chuck Jones' ''Peter And The Wolf'', and the ''Cabbage Patch Kids'' films. ''[[WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie Mumfie's Quest]]'' was the only example from the film series that wasn't a Short Anime Movie-it ran a whopping 108 minutes. However, during the last year of their partnership, they ran 2 Mumfie episode compilations which lasted 45 minutes each.
74** If it wasn't for the padding by the Milkshake! hosts and the additional older episodes of the show that round it to 70 minutes in total, ''[[WesternAnimation/PeppaPig Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots]]'' could have been 15 minutes long.
75*** There was also ''Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience'' (known as ''Peppa's Australian Holiday'' in Australia), which was basically 7 5-minute shorts which were each followed by segments involving Daisy[[note]]A Manchild-like female human character from the live shows[[/note]] playing and singing with puppet versions of Peppa and George.
76** ''[[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney Junior Party]]'' is a 60-minute film released in Italy and Spain which complies episodes of three of it's most popular shows and has filler featuring WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse. The US distributor Fathom Events also has a similar series called ''Disney Junior At The Movies''.
77** Fathom Events also did a Zula Patrol event which lasted only 70 minutes long.
78** A few movie theaters across the USA sometimes screen the new ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episodes before they hit DVD, each of which last only 45 minutes long.
79* While Creator/{{Disney}} has screened shorts before their movies before, sometimes they fall under this trope because they are the length of a typical Short Anime Movie (around a half hour). Two examples of this are the ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' featurettes and ''WesternAnimation/OlafsFrozenAdventure''.
80* In-universe example: In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E14TheZiffWhoCameToDinner The Ziff Who Came to Dinner]]", ''[[WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys The Wild Dingleberries Movie]]'' [[https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/9/9e/The_Wild_Dingleberries_Movie.png is shown to have]] a runtime of 47 minutes, qualifying it for this trope.
81* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShowTheMovie'', a 60-minute film, was shown as a limited release in select US cities.
82* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrolMightyPups'', a 45-minute special of ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' did get a limited cinema releases in many countries, even going far as the DVD release referring it as a "movie".
83* The 1978 film adaptation of Creator/TakashiYanase's children's book ''Chirin no Suzu'' (known as ''Literature/RingingBell'' in anglophone regions) is 46 minutes long. While not a feature length movie, the film does a great job at showcasing some [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids disturbing imagery]] for a movie that's almost 50 minutes long.
84* The 1977 Japanese animated short ''Bara no Hana to Joe'' (''Literature/TheRoseFlowerAndJoe'') is only 20 minutes long.
85* The 1970 Japanese animated short ''Yasashii Lion'' (''Anime/TheKindlyLion'' aka ''The Gentle Lion'') by Creator/MushiProductions is 27 minutes long.
86* The 1979 PilotMovie ''[[Anime/UnicoBlackCloudAndWhiteFeather Unico: Black Cloud and White Feather]]'' (Manga/{{Unico}}'s animation debut) is 26 minutes long.
87* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Admiral and the Princess}}'', a 30-minute short film that aired on TV in a few channels.
88* Many Creator/PBSKids specials are billed as movies despite running for 55 minutes long at most. Some of them, like ''[[WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood The Daniel Tiger Movie: Won't You Be Our Neighbor?]]'' and the ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'' specials, were screened as part of PBS Kids at the Alamo Drafthouse with bonus episodes attached to stretch it out to the length of a theatrical film.
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92* ''WesternAnimation/{{Achilles}}''
93* ''WesternAnimation/{{Allegretto}}''
94* ''WesternAnimation/{{Alleycats}}''
95* ''WesternAnimation/{{Alma}}''
96* ''WesternAnimation/AssassinsCreedEmbers''
97* "The Very Short ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' Movie": Big-budget animation for a six minutes project that previewed the anime series.
98* ''WesternAnimation/BigBuckBunny''
99* ''WebAnimation/TheBigDadWolf''
100* ''WesternAnimation/BigTime''
101* ''WesternAnimation/BlackfordManor''
102* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bleuets}}''
103* ''WesternAnimation/BorrowedTime''
104* ''WesternAnimation/BoysNightOut''
105* ''WebAnimation/BrainDivided''
106* ''WesternAnimation/BrokenLance''
107* ''WesternAnimation/TheCatPiano''
108* ''Film/TheCatWithHands''
109* ''Cheap Rate Gravity''
110* ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol1971''
111* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts''
112* ''WesternAnimation/CowsWithGuns''
113* ''Animation/CreationOfTheWorld'' ("Stworzenie świata", a Polish retelling of a Romani fairy tale)
114* ''WesternAnimation/CreatureDiscomfortsLifeInLockdown''
115* ''[[Anime/CuteyHoney Cutey Honey Flash]]'' got a 38-minute film as part of the Toei Summer Anime Fair.
116* ''Film/CyberneticGrandma''
117* ''Anime/DaiconIIIAndIV'': The two shorts are around 5-6 minutes long apiece.
118* ''WebAnimation/DiamondJack''
119* ''WebAnimation/DreamingOfGoodTimes'': A Pokemon Chinese short movie produced for the Chinese new year showing several characters trying to get to a New Years celebration in the Pokemon world.
120* ''Anime/DiGiCharatATripToThePlanet'': Just short of half an hour. It was typically shown as a triple feature alongside ''[[{{Literature/Slayers}} The Slayers Premium]]'' (itself only about 7 minutes longer than a typical ''Slayers'' episode) and ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie''.
121* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The first film was a PilotMovie, and only 20 minutes long.
122* ''Manga/DoctorSlump'': Out of 11 movies, X were less than 40 minutes.
123* ''WebAnimation/DreamComeTrue''
124* ''WesternAnimation/ElephantsDream''
125* ''WesternAnimation/EmilyAndTheBabaYaga''
126* ''WesternAnimation/FaceLikeAFrog''
127* ''WesternAnimation/{{Feast}}''
128* ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat''
129** ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatOttoMessmer''
130* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlyingSailor''
131* ''WebAnimation/FreshGuacamole''
132* ''WesternAnimation/FrozenFever''
133* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fuelled}}''
134* ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords'': 46 minutes long. Ironically, Creator/MakotoShinkai made this one as short as it is because of complaints that his longer movies were lower-quality, but Western reviewers consistently disliked the short timeframe.
135* ''Anime/Gekiganger3'': A 20-30 minute ''[[ShowWithinAShow Gekiganger 3]]'' movie was included in supplemental material to ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', on top of the OriginalVideoAnimation release of the ''Anime/Gekiganger3'' "series".
136* ''WesternAnimation/AGentlemensDuel''
137* ''Film/GodzillaVsGiganRex''
138* ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse''
139* ''WesternAnimation/HairPiece''
140* ''WesternAnimation/HarvieKrumpet''
141* ''WesternAnimation/HeadOverHeels''
142* ''WesternAnimation/HeresThePlan''
143* ''WebAnimation/Holidaze2019''
144* ''WesternAnimation/IceMerchants''
145* ''WesternAnimation/IfAnythingHappensILoveYou''
146* ''WesternAnimation/InnerWorkings''
147* ''{{Literature/Inukami}}'': TheMovie was the length of an average TV episode, except with a little more at stake than your average TV episode and a slightly bigger budget. Namely, the CensorBox elephant was CG and chrome.
148* ''WebAnimation/IPetGoatII''
149* ''WesternAnimation/IronWithin''
150* ''WesternAnimation/ItsOppo''
151* ''WesternAnimation/JinxyJenkinsAndLuckyLou''
152* ''WesternAnimation/JohnHenryAndTheInkyPoo''
153* ''WesternAnimation/JuroQueVi'' (collection of five ten to thirteen shorts about Myth/BrazilianFolklore)
154* Creator/JuliaDonaldson Adaptations by Creator/TheBBC
155** ''Literature/TheGruffalo''
156** ''WesternAnimation/TheGruffalosChild''
157** ''WesternAnimation/TheHighwayRat''
158** WesternAnimation/TheSnailAndTheWhale
159** ''WesternAnimation/RoomOnTheBroom''
160** ''WesternAnimation/{{Zog}}''
161* Animation/KihachiroKawamotoShorts
162* ''Literature/KinosJourney'' has two 30-minute movies.
163* ''WebAnimation/{{Kiwi}}''
164* ''WesternAnimation/LeMans1955''
165* ''WebAnimation/LiftYouUp''
166* ''Animation/TheLittleMermaid1968''
167* ''WesternAnimation/{{Logorama}}''
168* ''WesternAnimation/TheLonelyDodo''
169* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''
170* ''Literature/TheLostThing''
171* ''WesternAnimation/ALoveStory''
172* ''Anime/Macross7'': The movie was the length of a single 30-minute episode.
173* ''Anime/MahouShojoLalabel'': 15 minutes.
174* ''Anime/MeiAndTheKittenbus'': A 13 minute short-form sequel to ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''. It is exclusive to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Japan.
175* ''WesternAnimation/MimiAndTheMountainDragon'', a 25 minute adaptation of a children's book by Michael Morpurgo.
176* ''Modest Heroes'', a Studio Ponoc film comprised of 3 15-minute shorts.
177* ''WesternAnimation/MonaLisaDescendingAStaircase''
178* ''WebAnimation/{{Monsterbox}}''
179* ''WesternAnimation/MoonBreathBeat''
180* ''WesternAnimation/{{More}}''
181* ''WebAnimation/MrPlastimime''
182* ''WebAnimation/{{Musophobia}}'': A 45 second long short by Creator/TheAnimationWorkshop students.
183* ''Anime/MyLittleGoat''
184* ''WesternAnimation/MyMoon''
185* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Two very short "introductory" films before the series began broadcasting.
186* ''Anime/NoisemanSoundInsect'': A short movie the length of a normal anime episode, but with all the values and the budget of a full feature film.
187* ''WesternAnimation/NotWithoutMyHandbag''
188* ''Animation/TheNut1967'': A Polish short about a walnut rolling around surviving numerous obstacles.
189* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'':
190** During the "Sharp" season, there is a movie 27 minutes long. It was part of a triple feature with ''Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!!'' and ''Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals''.
191** During the "Motto" season, there is a movie 26 minutes long. It was part of a triple feature with ''Digimon Tamers'' and ''Kinnikuman'' movies.
192* ''WesternAnimation/OldFangs''
193* ''WesternAnimation/TheOldLadyAndThePigeons''
194* ''WesternAnimation/OneSmallStep''
195* ''WesternAnimation/TheOriginOfStitch'': Included on the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'' DVD, serving as a bridge between that film and ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' pilot ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie''.
196* ''Anime/PaleCocoon''
197* ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}''
198* ''WesternAnimation/PigtailRag''
199* ''WesternAnimation/PixarShorts''
200* ''WesternAnimation/PrehistoricBeast''
201* ''WesternAnimation/{{Quest}}''
202* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': The third movie, ''Team Ranma vs. The Legendary Phoenix'', is about a half hour long, and in the US it was packaged as a set with {{OAV}}s, even changing the opening and closing sequences.
203* ''WesternAnimation/TheRedBook''
204* ''WebAnimation/RobosanAndWanchan''
205* ''WesternAnimation/RogerRabbitShorts''
206* ''WesternAnimation/RubyRocketPrivateDetective''
207* ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie'': Typically shown as a triple feature alongside ''Anime/DiGiCharat'' and ''[[Literature/{{Slayers}} The Slayers Premium]]''.
208* ''WesternAnimation/TheSandCastle''
209* ''WesternAnimation/TheSandman1991''
210* ''WesternAnimation/SantasChristmasCrash''
211* ''WesternAnimation/ScratchAndCrow''
212* ''WesternAnimation/ScreenPlay''
213* ''WesternAnimation/AShortVision''
214* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sintel}}''
215* ''[[Literature/{{Slayers}} The Slayers Premium]]'': Between 30 minutes and 40 minutes (depending on the cut). It was shown as a triple feature alongside the ''Anime/DiGiCharat'' movie and ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie''.
216* ''Soreike! Literature/{{Anpanman}}'': The theatrical features are frequently shown together with a 20-minute-long short film.
217* ''WebAnimation/StarWarsSquadronsHunted''
218* ''WesternAnimation/StanleyAndStellaInBreakingTheIce''
219* "Anime/StitchMeetsHighSchoolMusical": An under three-minute anime short broadcast on TV and included as a DVD bonus feature on a deluxe edition of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical 2''.
220* ''WesternAnimation/AStory''
221* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons''
222** ''WesternAnimation/TheMadScientist''
223** ''WesternAnimation/TheMechanicalMonsters''
224* ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfAlethrion''
225* ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'':
226** ''Anime/TamagotchiHontoNoHanashi'' (1997): About nine minutes long; was screened with a ''[[Anime/CuteyHoney Cutie Honey Flash]]'' film at a Toei Summer Anime Fair.
227** ''Anime/EigaTamagotchiHimitsuNoOtodokeDaiSakusen'' (2017): About 10 minutes in length and was screened with the ''[[Anime/KamisamaMinaraiHimitsuNoCocotama Himitsu no Cocotama]]'' movie.
228* ''WesternAnimation/TangledEverAfter''
229* ''Literature/TheThreeRobbers'' (1972)
230* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''
231* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'': The movie lasted barely over 30 minutes, and was originally shown with a feature-length film, the ''Manga/XxxHolic'' movie.
232* ''WebAnimation/TheTwins2022''
233* ''WesternAnimation/{{Vincent}}'' by Creator/TimBurton
234* ''Anime/VoicesOfADistantStar''
235* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'':
236** "WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut"
237** "WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers"
238** "WesternAnimation/ACloseShave"
239** "WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath"
240* ''WesternAnimation/WatsPig''
241* ''Webcomic/WelcomeToHell''[[note]]started as a webcomic, later got an animated short made[[/note]]
242* ''WesternAnimation/TheWingfeatherSaga''
243* ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfTomorrow''
244* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'': The first film, produced by Toei following [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries "Season 0"]], clocks in at about half an hour.
245* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': One short film that resembled a TV episode in length, but had a standalone movie-style plot. In America, this film is published as a double feature, with ''{{Anime/Ninku}}''.
246
247[[/folder]]
248[[folder:Live-Action Shorts]]
249* ''Film/FiveMenAndALimo''
250* ''Film/SeventeenSeconds2010''[[note]]Student short film made by ''Series/StudioC'''s Mallory Everton for a media arts class at Brigham Young University.[[/note]]
251* ''{{WebVideo/Aaron}}''
252* ''[[Film/LAccordeur L'Accordeur]]''
253* ''Film/{{Aftermath|1994}}''
254* ''Film/Alien40thAnniversaryShorts'' - 6 films produced for the 40th Anniversary of ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''
255* ''Film/AliveInJoburg''
256* ''Film/AlligatorPie''
257* ''Film/AllTheTroublesOfTheWorld'': Runtime is under 23 minutes.
258* ''Film/AlwaysCrashingInTheSameCar''
259* ''Film/{{Antopia}}''
260* ''Film/AquamanTheCastOfTheAngler'', a 20-minute 1984 Aquaman fan film
261* ''Film/AssassinsCreedLineage''
262* ''Film/AugustInTheCity''
263* ''Film/TheBagWitchProject'', a parody of ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''
264* ''WebVideo/BallGrillPolice''
265* ''Film/TheBattleOfMidway''
266* ''Film/BeingHomerSimpson''
267* ''Film/BeingHuman''
268* ''Film/BigBreaks''
269* ''Film/BladeRunnerShorts''
270* ''Series/BloodOverWater''[[note]]It became one when released to [=YouTube=]. It was originally five short videos in a mini-series.[[/note]]
271* ''Film/TheBloodyOlive''
272* ''Film/BornInTheMaelstrom''
273* ''Film/TheBox2018''
274* ''Film/BoxedIn''
275* ''Film/{{Broomshakalaka}}''
276* ''Film/Brotherhood2018''
277* ''Film/CallCasting''
278* ''Film/Cargo2013''
279* ''Film/Carved2018''
280* ''Film/CastroStreet''
281* ''Film/TheCentrifugeBrainProject''
282* ''Film/UnChienAndalou''
283* ''Film/ChuckysVacationSlides''
284* ''Film/CirqueDuSoleilJourneyOfMan'', a 2000 [=IMAX=] [=3D=] short (39 minutes).
285* ''Film/{{Class|2021}}''
286* ''Film/{{Connie}}''
287* ''Film/Contact1992'' (30 minutes)
288* ''Film/ACuriousConjunctionOfCoincidences''
289* ''Film/CurseOfTheCatLoversGrave''
290* ''Film/CynaraPoetryInMotion''
291* ''Film/DayOfTheKaiju''
292* ''Film/TheDaysOfOurYears''
293* ''Film/DeadpoolNoGoodDeed''
294* ''Film/DearDiary'' - won the 1996 Oscar for best short film; it was a TV SitCom {{Pilot}} that nobody had picked up. It ran 38 minutes.
295* ''Film/DesignForDreaming''
296* ''Film/DirtyLaundry''
297* ''Film/DisciplesOfTheCrow''
298* ''Film/DontTalk''
299* ''Film/{{Doodlebug}}''
300* ''WebVideo/DrJekyllAndMrHydeTheGameTheMovie''
301* ''WebVideo/{{Dust}}''
302* ''Film/EarnTwentyKEveryMonthByBeingYourOwnBoss''
303* ''Film/EastOfKensington''
304* ''Film/ElectionNight1998'' - won the 1998 MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestLiveActionShortFilm
305* ''Film/{{Elevated}}''
306* ''Film/ErinsGuideToKissingGirls''
307* ''Film/{{Evan}}''
308* ''Film/TheFactsInTheCaseOfMisterHollow''
309* ''Film/FarCry5InsideEdensGate''
310* ''Film/FarmSluts''
311* ''Film/TheFightingGeneration''
312* ''Film/FinalDeployment4QueenBattleWalkthrough''
313* ''Film/TheFlyingMan''
314* ''Film/TheFrolic''
315* ''Film/FryDay''
316* ''Film/GandhiAtTheBat''
317* ''Film/TheGerman''
318* ''Film/TheGillymuck''
319* ''Film/GodOfLove''
320* ''[[{{Film/GodzillaVsHedorah2021}} Godzilla Vs Hedorah]]''
321* ''WebVideo/GoldStandard''
322* ''Film/{{Gotcha}}''
323* ''Film/TheGreanTeem''
324* ''Film/GreatChoice''
325* ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery1903''
326* ''Film/AGunForGeorge''
327* ''Film/HardwareWars''
328* ''Film/TheHatchling''
329* ''Film/HauntedHorrifyingSoundsFromBeyondTheGrave''
330* ''Film/HighAndTight''
331* ''WebVideo/HitIt''
332* ''Film/HitmenForHire''
333* ''Film/TheHouseILiveIn'' -- starring Music/FrankSinatra
334* ''Film/TheHug''
335* ''Film/IAmJoaquin''
336* ''Animation/{{Igra}}''
337* ''Film/ImHere2010''
338* ''Film/IncestTheMusical''
339* ''Film/{{Inseparable}}''
340* ''Film/{{Interception}}''
341* ''Jasper Morello''
342* ''Film/TheKidAndTheCamera''
343* ''Film/TheKiss''
344* ''Film/KungFury''
345* ''Film/JudgeMinty''
346* ''Film/Judy2014''
347* ''Film/JurassicWorldBattleAtBigRock''
348* ''Film/JustSaying''
349* ''Film/LaCabina''
350* ''LateBloomer''
351* Creator/LaurelAndHardy
352** ''Film/TheBattleOfTheCentury''
353** ''Film/BigBusiness''
354** ''Film/DoubleWhoopee''
355** ''Film/TheMusicBox''
356** ''Film/GoingByeBye''
357** ''Film/TheFixerUppers''
358** ''Film/TitForTat''
359* ''Film/{{Lippy}}''
360* ''Film/TheLittleRascals'' series, 220 short films, 1922-1944
361* ''Film/LiveForeverAsYouAreNowWithAlanResnick''
362* ''Film/TheLoboParamilitaryChristmasSpecial''
363* ''Film/LongShot2017''
364* ''Film/LosBandoleros''
365* ''[[Film/LoveHate2009 Love/Hate]]''
366* ''Film/TheLunchDate''
367* ''Film/{{Manhatta}}''
368* ''Film/MarvelOneShots''
369** ''Film/TheConsultant''
370** ''Film/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToThorsHammer''
371** ''Film/Item47''
372** ''Film/AgentCarter''
373** ''Film/AllHailTheKing''
374* ''Film/MayIPleaseEnter''
375* ''Film/{{Megan}}''
376* ''Film/MeshesOfTheAfternoon''
377* ''Film/TheMessenger2017''
378* ''Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts''
379* ''{{Film/Modesta}}''
380* ''Film/MonstersCrashThePajamaParty''
381* ''Film/MoodBoobs''
382* ''Film/Munchausen2013''
383* ''Film/MyNameIsOona''
384* ''{{WebVideo/Nightfall}}''
385* ''Film/{{Neighbours}}''
386* ''Literature/AnOccurrenceAtOwlCreekBridge''
387* ''Film/OneGotFat''
388* ''Film/OneOnOne''
389* ''OnTheLot'' was a short-lived filmmaker talent competition where competitors made shorts each week. They include ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSvYGIuiUw Die Hardly Working]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohjDU7YlXEU Worldly Possession]]'', and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL5VMWPeKzw Sweet]]''.
390* ''Film/PayDay''
391* ''Film/PeteSmithSpecialties''
392* ''Film/PigHeart''
393* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked''
394* ''Film/Pitch2009''
395* ''Film/{{PMO}}''
396* ''Film/Poison2023''
397* ''Film/PossiblyInMichigan''
398* ''WebVideo/PowerRangersBootlegUniverse''
399* ''Film/PreciousImages''
400* ''[[Film/ProjectSERA Project S.E.R.A.]]''
401* ''Film/{{Pumzi}}''
402* ''Film/TheRatCatcher''
403* ''Film/ARecipeForSeduction''
404* ''Film/RecordedLive''
405* ''Film/TheRedBalloon'' -- won an Oscar for Original Screenplay, the only short to ever win any of the big Oscars (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Original/Adapted Screenplay)
406* ''Film/RedNightmare''
407* ''Film/Requiem2021''
408* ''Film/TheRizzle''
409* ''Film/RollingBomberSpecial''
410* ''Film/RoundhayGardenScene'' - at 2.11 ''seconds'', this is probably the shortest entry in this list.
411* ''Film/{{Revolution|1967}}''
412* ''Podcast/RiffTrax Shorts''
413* ''WebVideo/RollerSamuraiVampireSlayers''
414* ''Film/RoseHobart''
415* ''Film/TheSilentAlarm''
416* ''Film/TheSilentChild''
417* ''Film/{{Snix}}''
418* ''Film/SnowSteamIron''
419* ''Film/SonsOfLiberty''
420* ''Film/SoYouThinkYoureNotGuilty''
421* ''Film/SoYouWantToBeADetective''
422* ''Film/SoYouWantToBeInPictures''
423* ''Film/SoYouWantToBeOnTheRadio''
424* ''Film/SpellMyNameWithAnS'': Runtime is under 9 minutes.
425* ''Film/{{Splatter}}''
426* ''Film/StarInTheNight''
427* ''Film/StickyMyFingersFleetMyFeet''
428* ''Film/StolzDerNation''
429* ''Film/TheStrangeThingAboutTheJohnsons''
430* ''WebVideo/StuckHomeSyndrome''
431* ''Film/{{Stutterer}}''
432* ''Film/{{Sunspring}}''
433* ''Film/SuperFileteEnBuscaDeLaBeca''
434* ''Film/SuzanneSuzanne''
435* ''Film/TheSwan2023''
436* ''Film/TearsOfSteel''
437* ''Film/{{Terminus}}''
438* ''Film/TheyThem2020''
439* ''Film/TheThreeStooges''
440* ''Film/ThisHouseHasPeopleInIt'', excluding supplementary content.
441* ''[[Film/ThunderRoad Thunder Road (2016)]]''
442* ''Film/TooManyCooks''
443* ''Film/TwoBellmen''
444* ''Film/UneditedFootageOfABear''
445* ''Film/{{Urn}}''
446* ''Film/Validation2007''
447* ''Film/WeAllDieAlone''
448* ''Film/WestBankStory'' -- won the 2006 MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestLiveActionShortFilm
449* ''Film/WhatDidJackDo''
450* ''Film/WhyManCreates'' -- mixture of live-action and animated content.
451* ''Film/TheWildLife''
452* ''Film/TheWonderfulStoryOfHenrySugar''
453* ''Film/XMarksTheSpot''
454[[/folder]]
455
456[[folder:Shorts that were later made into feature films]]
457* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'': This was a short before it was a feature.
458* ''WesternAnimation/BattleForTerra'': This was a short before it was a feature.
459* ''Film/Cargo2013'': An Australian post-apocalyptic short film that was remade into a 2017 feature film released by Creator/{{Netflix}} starring Creator/MartinFreeman.
460* ''Film/{{Cashback}}'': 2004 short extended into 2006 feature.
461* ''Film/Code8'': 2016 short extended into 2019 feature.
462* ''Film/District9'': As ''Alive in Johannesburg''
463* ''[[Film/THX1138 Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB]]'': 1967 Creator/GeorgeLucas student film, later adapted into feature ''THX 1138''
464* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'': A live-action short from 1984 before being remade as a 2012 stop-motion animated feature.
465* ''Film/{{Heck}}'': 2020 short expanded into ''Film/{{Skinamarink}}''.
466* ''Film/JohnnyLingo'': 1969 short expanded into a 2003 feature.
467* ''Kids''
468* ''Night Swim'': 2014 short film by Bryce [=McGuire=] and Rod Blackhurst that was turned into a feature film due for release in January 2024, with [=McGuire=] writing and directing again
469* ''Film/ObviousChild'': The 2014 feature film was expanded from a 2009 short which also had Jenny Slate in the lead.
470[[/index]]
471* ''Film/{{Pixels}}'': 2010 live-action/CG short film that was turned into a 2015 feature film by Creator/AdamSandler.
472* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': This series began as a short film, with the Reverse Bear Trap that was later incorporated into the first ''Film/SawI'' feature.
473[[index]]
474* ''Film/ThunderRoad'': A 2016 short by Jim Cummings that he would turn into a feature two years later.
475* ''Film/WithinTheWoods'': 1978 Creator/SamRaimi short film that would later be expanded into the first [[Film/TheEvilDead1981 Evil Dead]] movie.
476* ''Film/TheWizardOfSpeedAndTime'': Both produced/directed/animated by and staring Mike Jittlov, but separated by nearly a decade.
477[[/index]]
478[[/folder]]

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