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short subject

noun

, Movies.
  1. a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.


short subject

noun

  1. a short film, esp one presented between screenings of a feature film
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of short subject1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Example Sentences

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best animated short subject.

Documentary short subject “The ABCs of Book Banning”

He spent nine years as a rabbi but moonlighted as a film salesman and wound up producing nearly 60, most of them short subjects but two of them Hitchcocks.

Though it didn’t win the Oscar it was nominated for — best documentary short subject — it’s well worth the half-hour it takes to watch the film “When We Were Bullies” on HBO or HBO Max.

Meanwhile, the winners of eight Oscars categories — film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, production design, sound, documentary short subject, animated short and live-action short — were presented before the start of the live broadcast.

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