 This is anecdotal, but I think it holds true. The pecking order of genre popularity (and Q recognition) in old silent films today runs something like this: 1. Slapstick comedy 2. Horror 3. Swashbucklers/ Battle films/ Biblical epics 4. Melodrama (with a preference for the spectacular ones, such as Griffith’s Way Down East) and [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:37AM on April 1, 2013