Charlie Chaplin take in "The Kid". For "The Immigrant", a 20 minute-short, Chaplin shot 40,000 feet of film – enough for a feature-length. Describing his working method as "sheer perseverance to the point of madness", Chaplin would be completely consumed by the production of a picture. Robinson writes that even in Chaplin's later years, his work continued "to take precedence over everything and everyone else." The combination of story improvisation and relentless perfectionism – which resulted in days of effort and thousands of feet of film being wasted, all at enormous expense – often proved taxing for Chaplin who, in frustration, would
Feature film film, but it is more accurately characterized as a sports program as it included the full unedited boxing match. In 1900, the documentary film "In the Army" was made. It was over 1 hour in length and was about the training techniques of the British soldier. Defined by length, the first dramatic feature film was the Australian 70-minute film "The Story of the Kelly Gang" (1906). Similarly, the first European feature was the 90-minute film "L'Enfant prodigue" (France, 1907), although that was an unmodified record of a stage play; Europe's first feature adapted directly for the screen, "Les Misérables", came