This Is the Longest Movie in History

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published
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Most Hollywood movies last about two hours. “Black Widow,” the current big box office hit runs 134 minutes. Some of America’s most famous movies fall well outside the two-hour number. “Stagecoach” made in 1939, the movie that made John Wayne famous, lasted 96 minutes. “Cleopatra,” made in 1963, the movie that brought Elizabeth Taylor and future husband Richard Burton together, ran an extraordinary 251 minutes. It was among the longest feature films ever made. However, it was not the longest movie ever made–not by a long shot.

According to the website Mental Floss, “Logistics.” released in 2012 in Sweden has a runtime of 35 days and 17 hours. It is unimaginable that someone would stay glued to a theater seat for more than a month. (A man from Sri Lanka set the record of 69 hours and 48 minutes for sitting watching TV in 2005.)

The film, the brainchild of filmmakers Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson, takes the viewer from when a consumer electronics product is made until when it was sold. The device they used was a pedometer. The movie tracks the process in reverse chronological order. Geographically, the movie starts in Shenzhen, China, and ends in Stockholm. Astonishingly, the movie can be streamed over the internet.

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Amazon-owned film review service IMDb gives “Logistics” a mediocre rating of 6.5 out of 10. One person who viewed the film and left a review at IMDb wrote:

Literally the best pacing I have ever seen in a movie, ever. The writing was outstanding and i couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. Wish I watched it in theatre, imagine it on the big screen!!! (Not quite a 10 becuase I think some bits were too long) However this does not take away the amazing cinematography. Would watch again and highly recommend to all ages! 🙂

The person who wrote that review may have had insomnia.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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