Television Movie

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A television movie (also known as a television film, TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, made-for-television, original movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, or telefilm) is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network.Though not explicitly labelled as such, there were early precedents for "TV movies," such as the 1957 version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, starring Van Johnson, one of the first filmed "family musicals" made directly for television. (Most "family musicals" of the time, such as Peter Pan, were broadcast live and preserved on kinescope, which is not precisely the same as film or even videotape.)