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 films, or to run them all together as a short film series. The American company S. Lubin released a Passion Play titled Lubin's Passion Play in January 1903 in 31 parts, totaling about 60 minutes. The French company Pathé Frères released a different Passion Play, "The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ", in May 1903 in 32 parts running about 44 minutes. There were also full-length records of boxing matches, such as "The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight" (1897), "Reproduction Of The Corbett-Jeffries Fight" (1899), and "The Jeffries-Sharkey Fight" (1899). Some consider the 100-minute "The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight" to be the first documentary feature