featurette

English

Etymology

feature +‎ -ette

Noun

featurette (plural featurettes)

1. (film) A relatively short feature film.
   • 1949 September 24, “8 Films in '50 Set by De Rochemont”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The 1950 production program of the RD-DR Corporation (Reader's Digest-deRochemont) has been expanded to include six hour-length “featurettes” in addition to two longer pictures, it was announced yesterday by Louis de Rochemont, the producer.

2. (film) A short film of bonus material, companion to the main feature, frequently part of additional material in a home video release on LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-Ray.
   • 2018 April 6, Fabrice Robinet, “Oh for the Days of the Making-Of Featurette — Seriously”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?

Descendants

• → French: featurette

Translations

a relatively short feature film

• Hungarian: rövidfilm (hu), kisfilm (hu), kisjátékfilm
• Irish: mion-ghnéchlár m
• Kazakh: қысқаметражды фильм (qysqametrajdy film)
• Polish: film średniometrażowy m
• Russian: короткометражный фильм (ru) m (korotkometražnyj filʹm)

bonus material

• French: featurette (fr) f

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English featurette.

Noun

featurette f (plural featurettes)

1. (film) featurette (bonus material)