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Between 1897 and 1902, the French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861–1938) made numerous actualités reconstituées ("reconstructed actualities" or "reconstructed newsreels"). Unlike conventional actuality films, which presented real-life events or simple naturalistic scenes filmed in a documentary style, these reconstructed actualities were dramatically staged reenactments of current events, employing miniature models and theatrical techniques. Méliès particularly focused on capturing the spectacular nature of the events he recreated. While little is known of the exact release dates for many of Méliès's films, it appears that the reconstructed actualities were offered for sale soon after the events they portrayed, when the news was still fresh in viewers' minds.

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  • List of reconstructed actualities by Georges Méliès (en)
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  • Between 1897 and 1902, the French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861–1938) made numerous actualités reconstituées ("reconstructed actualities" or "reconstructed newsreels"). Unlike conventional actuality films, which presented real-life events or simple naturalistic scenes filmed in a documentary style, these reconstructed actualities were dramatically staged reenactments of current events, employing miniature models and theatrical techniques. Méliès particularly focused on capturing the spectacular nature of the events he recreated. While little is known of the exact release dates for many of Méliès's films, it appears that the reconstructed actualities were offered for sale soon after the events they portrayed, when the news was still fresh in viewers' minds. (en)
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  • This film, the most successful of the series, was shot through an aquarium to create an "underwater" effect with real fish, and shows divers retrieving a corpse from the wrecked ship. See the main article for more information. (en)
  • Very little is known about this film, which was listed as a Greco-Turkish War reconstruction by some twentieth-century Méliès scholars, including Georges Sadoul. However, it is not included in Malthête and Mannoni's more recent list of Méliès's Greco-Turkish War films. Since it appears to have been advertised under the title La Défense de Bazeilles, it was probably a film about the Battle of Bazeilles during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. (en)
  • This film, simulating the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra before the actual event took place, was Méliès's most complex reconstructed actuality, and was successful worldwide. See the main article for more information. (en)
  • According to a British advertisement, this film showed a Greek spy being executed in Farsala, where the Greek forces had retreated before it in turn was attacked by the Turks. In Germany and the Netherlands, however, exhibitors claimed that the film showed the execution of a Turkish spy. (en)
  • This film recreated one of the Turkish massacres of Christian Greeks, shortly before the beginning of the war. The following recollection of a faked Greco-Turkish War film, reported secondhand by Frederick Villiers, is probably a description of Massacre in Crete: "Three Albanians came along a very white, dusty road toward a cottage on the right of the screen. As they neared it they opened fire; you could see the bullets strike the stucco of the building. Then one of the Turks with the butt end of his rifle smashed in the door of the cottage, entered, and brought out a lovely Athenian maid in his arms. You could see her struggling and fighting for liberty. Presently an old man, evidently the girl's father, rushed out of the house to her rescue, when the second Albanian whipped out his yataghan from his belt and cut the old gentleman's head off." (en)
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