The History of Short Film

1895- Sortie De'lusine; the first films were short due to technology restrictions.

Short Film and Hollywood:
Short film was completely over shadowed by the high production of Hollywood; the dominant mode of film production 'the classic narrative' and feature length 90 Min's.
The Hollywood studio system required films to be no longer than 100 Min's so the cinemas were able to have 2 hour blocks in which the trailers and viewers were able to get food.

1930s onwards short film was a marginal activity; it would only be created to break codes and conventions of high budget blockbuster films and allow directors the leisure of experimenting without a huge financial loss.



Short Film and Tv:

1960-1970S TV provided some insers where people could watch short films, these were either 'Fillers' between programs or at late night slots.
1990s BBC2 launched series 10 X 10 which was in association with the BFI to showcase some short films.
1993: bbc launched 'video nation' to populate mass vieweing of short films, and now the internet.

- video cameras became cheeper and smaller and the video diary started to grow in number, this was set to influence the generation of reality tv such as big brother and reality tv online in 2001.
www.bbc.co.uk/videonation

currently:

Hollywood doesn't follow the studio system and sees short film as room for experiments and innovation, short film as previously stated allows the director to be able to take risks without huge financial loss over their heads. Studios also now scout talent at short film festivals for young aspiring directors. George Lucas, and Stephen Spielberg were both found at film festivals and they've gotten where they are now due to it.