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Film is a release of a visual narrative composed of a series of moving images that is considered a complete presentation and is intended to be classified as a film. A film can be of any length of running time and presented in a theatrical, television, internet-streaming and direct-to-home-video presentation.

• Theatrical film releases (e.g.: The Wizard of Oz, Singin In The Rain, Seven Samurai, Battleship Potemkin, M, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, and Y Tu Mamá También).

• Musical concert films, often a special broadcast on a TV network, straight-to-video release or a special film event presentation are films (e.g.: Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience or Yanni Live at the Royal Hall).

• Co-type as Concert Film and set the film genre to concert film. These can be co-typed as a TV episode (if part of a series or program) or TV program if necessary.

• Educational, promotional or institutional/corporate films (e.g.: Duck and Cover, Your Safety First and Your Name Here).

• Other visual media edited and re-released as a film. (e.g.: Fanny & Alexander, The Kingdom).

• Co-type with appropriate types for the original format (in this example TV Program) and possibly the topic will be split later to reflect the differing editions of the film and other visual media type.

• TV movies (e.g.: 12 Angry Men, Grey Gardens and A Time For Miracles).

• Co-type with TV Episode or co-type as a TV Program when the TV movie is not part of a regular anthology series.

• Direct-To-Video films: (Sequels to popular films, e.g. Stitch! The Movie; OVA's, e.g. Ju-On 1; home video release (USA) e.g. Inferno (aka Desert Heat).

• Online video film productions (e.g.: 405 and Alive in Joburg).

• Short films, duration of anywhere from a minute to 40 minutes in North America and much shorter elsewhere (e.g.: La Jetee, The Battle of San Pietro).

• Cartoons often shown before the main title in the early to mid-20th century (e.g.: What's Opera Doc?, Presto).

• Visual artworks can be comprised of a film element that can be projected on or displayed within an artwork, art installation, or completely divorced from any existing physical artwork (as in an art space wall or exterior surface of a building) as part of the artistic performance (e.g. The Greeting by Bill Viola).

• Co-type with Artwork and usually the Art Form will be video art/digital art and installation art.

• TV Programs (e.g.: Gilligan's Island, Mahabharat, Lost).

• Type as a TV Program.

• TV Miniseries is a TV Program with a very small number of episodes presented over a short period of time and never re-edited and re-released as a film later (e.g.: Roots, Shogun and Rich Man, Poor Man).

• Type as a TV Program.

• Music Videos and Music Video Compilations may resemble films in having actors, dialogue, plot but are almost always specific promotional video(s) for a specific song(s) or set of songs if a medley (e.g.: Thriller, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, November Rain, Depeche Mode's 1988 compilation of videos called Strange).

• As of this time we have no commons type for music videos.

• Film series are a series of closely related films (e.g.: Looney Tunes, Three Colors, Otoko wa Tsurai yo, and James Bond film series).

• Type as Film Series.

• Film trailers are considered promotional material, thus are an advertisement. They may appear to be very film-like, but we classify them as an ad (promo) for the film.

• As of this time we have no type in commons for film trailers.

• Shogun is a mini-series, it has been incorrectly typed as a film. It has been released as a multi-disk (or video-tape) release in the past, but not as a film as far as I can find.

• Michael Jackson's Thriller which should be typed as a long-form music video (when we have a commons type for that).

• TV pilots for a TV series are sometimes of a longer length than the TV show's episodic run-time. Occasionally released as a film, sometimes edited into two-parters as episodes. The Homecoming: A Christmas Story was a TV movie that spawned the TV series eg. The Waltons.

• Type as TV Episode, usually as episode #0 and possibly co-type as Film depending on the circumstances of it's initial presentation or subsequent re-release.

• Film Identity Criteria