On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 12:09:16 PM UTC-5, Jack Bohn wrote:   
   > Mark Leeper wrote:   
   > > Comments on the 1945 Retro Hugo Nominations in the Dramatic Presentation   
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   > There was a three-volume index of SF and fantasy films in my local library   
   in the early '70s...  A search shows it was _Reference Guide to Fantastic   
   Films: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror_ by Walt Lee.  As you might guess,   
   to fill three volumes in    
   those pre-Star Wars days, he cast his net widely, including as fantastic   
   content dream sequences, superspy devices, including the macguffin device -one   
   searched for and fought over, but not used- speculative geography (made up   
   countries), even talking    
   animals in cartoon shorts.  He even included the fake haunting films, as, for   
   a portion of the running time, the possibility that they were real was   
   entertained.  I'm not sure where he would have drawn the line between madness   
   and simple murder as horror    
   films.  A long-winded way of saying that although I liked BLUEBEARD, I don't   
   feel it qualifies.  Nor MURDER IN THE BLUE ROOM if it is substantially similar   
   to the earlier SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM.   
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   > -jACK   
      
   Ah, yes--we have those volumes also.   
      
   Basically, Mark included everything from Tom Weaver’s POVERTY ROW HORRORS!   
   and from UNIVERSAL HORRORS by John Brunas, Tom Brunas, and Tom Weaver. People   
   are of course free to say some of these are not SFF and not nominate them.   
      
   By the way, I will be adding an appendix/supplement with a half dozen or so   
   fantasy films that we missed.   
      
   --   
   Evelyn C. Leeper   
      
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