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.....The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)
Not Rated | 1min | Short, History, Horror | 28 August 1895 (USA)
As you can see it has a "Horror Genre" tag.
Since this is a historical film, I would like some feedback first before I submit a correction for deletion and correction of the tag.
Genres: Short | History | Horror
As you can see it only has the three tags.
My Question: Your opinion of replacing Horror tag with Drama.
I'm am asking first your thoughts on this.
It's better to ask a question and gain knowledge, than to learn from ones mistakes.
Although the mistakes, can be fun sometimes!
What do you all think about it?
Thanks
Ed
Cheers
.....The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)
Not Rated | 1min | Short, History, Horror | 28 August 1895 (USA)
As you can see it has a "Horror Genre" tag.
Since this is a historical film, I would like some feedback first before I submit a correction for deletion and correction of the tag.
Genres: Short | History | Horror
As you can see it only has the three tags.
My Question: Your opinion of replacing Horror tag with Drama.
I'm am asking first your thoughts on this.
It's better to ask a question and gain knowledge, than to learn from ones mistakes.
Although the mistakes, can be fun sometimes!
What do you all think about it?
Thanks
Ed
Cheers
Posted 1 year ago
It's definitely not horror, and I wouldn't call it a "drama," either. This was made during the period of early cinema dominated by the "cinema of attractions," so-called because these are largely non-narrative films that don't fall into the movie genres developed some 20 or so years later with the rise of Hollywood and the studio system.
Specifically, it's a trick film, but even that is a rather retroactive label since this film in particular seems to be the first of its kind--made before Georges Méliès and others shortly thereafter popularized films based around such film techniques as the substitution-splice seen in this one. But, then, I think Méliès has some pictures mislabeled as "horror," too.
Specifically, it's a trick film, but even that is a rather retroactive label since this film in particular seems to be the first of its kind--made before Georges Méliès and others shortly thereafter popularized films based around such film techniques as the substitution-splice seen in this one. But, then, I think Méliès has some pictures mislabeled as "horror," too.
Thank you for your input. Goes with what I'm thinking. Want to have those I's dotted and T's crossed before I submit a correction on a film of this stature. Plus it would be my first ever submission on Genre. I tend to leave that type of submission alone because it is so subjective. This is the first time that I have come across a Genre tag that is obviously out of place.
A couple of more positives and I will fell better about the submission.
A couple of more positives and I will fell better about the submission.
Ed Jones(XLIX)