Featurette is a term used in the American film industry to designate a film whose length is approximately three quarters of a reel, or about 20–44 minutes in running time - thus midway between a short subject and a feature film; thus it is a "small feature". The term was commonly used from before the start of the sound era into the 1960s, when films of such length stopped being made or were made as experimental or art films and subsumed under the more general rubric of short.

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  • Featurette is a term used in the American film industry to designate a film whose length is approximately three quarters of a reel, or about 20–44 minutes in running time - thus midway between a short subject and a feature film; thus it is a "small feature". The term was commonly used from before the start of the sound era into the 1960s, when films of such length stopped being made or were made as experimental or art films and subsumed under the more general rubric of short. Its use outside the USA is unknown, although it was as commonly applied to foreign imports as domestic productions within that country. After the advent of DVD, the term - at least in America - also gained the meaning of "a brief documentary film covering one or more aspects of the film creation process", usually being used in DVD features descriptions to refer to video-format "Behind The Scenes" type bonus features such as documentaries on special effects or set design (although blooper reels and interviews with cast or crew seem to rarely if ever be described as "featurette"). This usage possibly derived partly or completely independent from the term's original meaning, as should be apparent from the fact that most Bluray "featurettes" are actually less (sometimes far less) than 20 minutes in length. Today, the latter definition, though possibly an inaccurate usage of the original term, is far more common.
  • Featurette è un termine utilizzato nell'industria cinematografica statunitense che indica un film di lunghezza pari ad approssimativamente tre quarti di una bobina, o di durata pari a circa 20-44 minuti. Oggi il termine featurette è utilizzato soprattutto per indicare un breve documentario che presenta uno o più aspetti del processo di creazione di un film, spesso incluso come contenuto speciale nella versione per la vendita del film stesso. Una featurette, in questo senso, è spesso un'intervista agli attori o al cast tecnico, un documentario sulla realizzazione degli effetti speciali, un "dietro le quinte" oppure una raccolta di scene inedite o tagliate. Queste ultime possono essere scene non utilizzabili per via della presenza di errori di recitazione o tecnici, chiamati in inglese blooper (o outtake). In generale le featurette contenute nei DVD hanno una durata ridotta, spesso inferiore ai 20 minuti.
  • Novellfilm är en svensk beteckning för längre kortfilmer. Novellfilm har under 2000-talet marknadsförts av Svenska Filminstitutet under namnet "Svensk novellfilm". Enligt Svenska Filminstitutets normer ska en novellfilm ha en speltid på 28 minuter. Men som novellfilm brukar räknas kortfilmer från cirka 20 minuter och upp till långfilmslängd. Vanligtvis är en novellfilm dock knappt 30 minuter, för att passa TV-kanalernas tablåsättning. Den engelska termen featurette hade tidigare ungefär samma betydelse.
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  • Featurette is a term used in the American film industry to designate a film whose length is approximately three quarters of a reel, or about 20–44 minutes in running time - thus midway between a short subject and a feature film; thus it is a "small feature". The term was commonly used from before the start of the sound era into the 1960s, when films of such length stopped being made or were made as experimental or art films and subsumed under the more general rubric of short.
  • Featurette è un termine utilizzato nell'industria cinematografica statunitense che indica un film di lunghezza pari ad approssimativamente tre quarti di una bobina, o di durata pari a circa 20-44 minuti. Oggi il termine featurette è utilizzato soprattutto per indicare un breve documentario che presenta uno o più aspetti del processo di creazione di un film, spesso incluso come contenuto speciale nella versione per la vendita del film stesso.
  • Novellfilm är en svensk beteckning för längre kortfilmer. Novellfilm har under 2000-talet marknadsförts av Svenska Filminstitutet under namnet "Svensk novellfilm". Enligt Svenska Filminstitutets normer ska en novellfilm ha en speltid på 28 minuter. Men som novellfilm brukar räknas kortfilmer från cirka 20 minuter och upp till långfilmslängd. Vanligtvis är en novellfilm dock knappt 30 minuter, för att passa TV-kanalernas tablåsättning.
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