Our Good News according to Jesus series..do we always call these videos? Is it proper to refer to them as movies? Does our organization ever refer to them as movies?

[SUNRAY]

Recently someone told me not to refer to our Jesus videos as movies when letter writing..I kind of like saying they are movies because people in the territory watch movies! 

[ReadYourBible]

A movie is a 2-3 hour long film. 

Whereas a video series is usually comprised of ~1 hour + a few minutes episodes. This video series has 18 episodes, so it's the equivalent of several movies! ❤️ 

 

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by ReadYourBible

[SUNRAY]

1 hour ago, ReadYourBible said:

A movie is a 2-3 hour long film. 

Whereas a video series is usually comprised of ~1 hour + a few minutes episodes. This video series has 18 episodes, so it's the equivalent of several movies! ❤️ 

 

 

 

Thanks for your input! So we should refer to the episodes as videos, right? And if we encourage people to go to JWorg and watch the episodes we would not say: "The good news according to Jesus movies".

[Brandon]

I call it a video series. I tell them 6 episodes are out now on our website and the free JWB smart tv channel/app, with twelve more coming over the years.

 

Sometimes I liken it to translating the Bible for a specific audience, in this case, people who appreciate learning visually. I tell them all the gospels are there word for word, and eventually the book of Acts too (I hope we do the whole New Testament but Matthew to Acts is what has been confirmed as videos)

Edited 5 hours ago by Brandon

[Shawnster]

5 hours ago, ReadYourBible said:

A movie is a 2-3 hour long film.

 

Popular movies under 2 hours 

 

Classic & Drama

• 12 Angry Men (1957) – 96 minutes

• Casablanca (1942) – 102 minutes

• Stand by Me (1986) – 89 minutes

• American History X (1998) – 119 minutes

 

Sci-Fi & Thriller

• Alien (1979) – 116 minutes

• A Quiet Place (2018) – 90 minutes

• Get Out (2017) – 104 minutes

• Ex Machina (2014) – 108 minutes

• WALL·E (2008) – 98 minutes

 

Comedy & Family

• Airplane! (1980) – 87 minutes

• Shrek (2001) – 90 minutes

• The Princess Bride (1987) – 98 minutes

• The Lion King (1994) – 88 minutes

• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) – 76 minutes

 

 

[Qapla]

Some interesting thoughts on this:

 

• Short Films: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as an original motion picture with a running time of 40 minutes or less (including credits).
• Feature Films vs. General Movies: While a feature film usually requires a longer runtime (typically 40 to 90+ minutes depending on the organization or festival), the broader term "movie" or "film" applies to motion pictures of any length.
• Historical Context: In the early 1900s, standard commercial movies were only about 15 minutes long (fitting on a single reel of film) before longer feature films became popular.

So, it may come down to semantics ... to some, the terms are interchangable