Music and Films Metadata?

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but . . .
File/get Info brings up the information panel.
It doesn't matter if you select a song in music or a film in films the information fields are the same.
So when entering information for a film, where is the 'director' field?
Why doesn't this info panel change to reflect music or films?
It's geared to cater for music only.

I use an older iTunes. Some extra tags are present in the options tab.
I don't know why it doesn't change. Probably none of us know why apart from it hasn't been programmed that way.

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