What Is a Short Film?

What Is a Short Film? An interesting question, a short film can last from 3.5 minutes to 45 minutes all depending on what it is that we're watching and the difficulties that are behind the plot.
Short Films are to be simple but enjoyable.

Short films are often created by professional and amateur film makers and are usually for non profit, either with a low budget, no budget at all, and in rare cases big budgets. Short films are usually funded by film grants, non profit organizations, sponsor, or out of pocket funds.

Although they are lower in status than a feature film some of the worlds best comedians moved up from shorts to features such as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and buster Keaton.

This short film both features Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

In the 1920's people would have paid to see a movie but before and/or after the movie they would have seen up to 5 shorts including a newsreel.
this became incredibly popular in the 30's as people would have depended on the comedy that came with the shorts, comedy was the most common genre to create a short film in.

Later shorts included the works of Walt Disney and Warner Brother cartoons seen below:

This is one of Walt Disney's Shorts made in 1938 Ferdinand The Bull an Oscar Winning short!

This is one of Warner Bros shorts the Looney Tunes.

Since then the world has evolved and with it technology people now depend on the interne to broadcast their short films via YouTube and Vimeo. The BBC filmmakers site focus on showing curated shorts.

Nowadays shorts are starting to become popular with certain film company's like Disney Pixar who made these films:

This is La Luna by Walt Disney and it was played just before certain Disney movies like Brave and Cars etc.