Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. [genres in literature and performing arts]
6. [genres for motion pictures]

Anotations

Scope note:

Early motion picture genre, made prior to 1910. It consisted of silent films of very short length showing people and events from everyday life as they happened, usually authentic but sometimes manipulated.