††††A feature film is the main film in a programme, or a full-length film, as opposed to cartoons, advertising films and short documentaries.
The first moving pictures were shown in the 1890s, but they were short. The Lumiere Brothers displayed their first movies in a Paris cafe in 1895. In 1902, Georges Melies of France made the fantasy story film, A Trip to the Moon, and in 1903 Edwin Porter directed the Great Train Robbery for Thomas Edison. The world's first full-length feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, was made in Australia in 1906. The first full-length sound film, called a 'talkie', was The Jazz Singer, made in 1927, although the credit for the earliest sound on film motion picture must go to Eugene Augustin Lauste who patented his process in 1906. The use of colour in films did not become widespread until the 1950s.
