To be a short film it needs to include the following:
- Beginning
- Middle; where something happens
- Ending
- Needs to last up to (approx) 40min.
Short films started off in the early 1900's known as short subjects originating from USA. These short films were often shown after a long film, often usually been a comedy, with Slapstick been the favourite at the time. This is one of the first short comedy films made by James Williamson in 1904.
The Lumier Brothers were some of the first people to make a short comedy film. This is their very first comedy 'Watering the Gardener.' It includes a man who has a watering hose and is tricked into been soaked by a prankster child.
They then began to die out, this was because certain companies forced the owners of the short film to sell their film the big film companies which wasn't allowed and later on stopped. When television came more popular they started to broadcast short films both old and new.
In 1980's Short films were then known as 'Short Subjects' which were noncommercial motion pictures shorter than a regular film.
They are now, no longer shown as often, but are uaully shown at film festivals, exhibitions and film award ceremonies.
They can be found in lots of places, online (youtube www.youtube.com, channel 4 shorts www.film4.com/videos/film4-shorts, and pixar www.pixar.com/short_films, ) on TV (channel 4 often shown short films in between programmes,) and sometimes the cinema before the main feature (for example Ice age 4 which has recently been released earlier this year.)
