It was Greenaway's first feature-length film after many years making shorts.

Mexico's first woman director, she made three features from 1948 - 1951 before production conditions forced her to turn to making shorts.

Brakhage tried to make money on his films, but had to take a job making industrial shorts to support his family.

Advised to make shorts, he decided to shoot an 80-minute feature with a small cast, using real locations.

This was Lloyd's second directed feature film after several years of making shorts.

The first group of five was tasked with making shorts based on the theme, "when two worlds collide".

Yet when an industrial company asked him to make shorts, he accepted and prospered at it.

He started making shorts at a very young age, before directing his first medium length film Manuela, in 1966.

It was Cox's first full length feature film although he had made numerous shorts beforehand.

In 1940 they formed Embassy Pictures and made several shorts.