Actuality film is a non-fiction film genre that uses footage of real events, places, and things (essentially B-roll), in a similar way to documentary film...

practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", briefly lasted for one minute or less. Over time, documentaries...

stories and artificial sets. Documentaries are not pure actuality films - rather they combine actuality with explanation, commentary, and perhaps even dramatization...

experimentation with fiction filmmaking (both in actuality film and other genres) did occur. Films were mostly screened inside temporary storefront spaces...

(1861–1938), a French filmmaker and magician, made a variety of short actuality films between 1896 and 1900. Méliès was established as a magician with his...

actualités reconstituées ("reconstructed actualities" or "reconstructed newsreels"). Unlike conventional actuality films, which presented real-life events or...

produced by Edison Studios. A Sea Cave Near Lisbon, a British short silent actuality film, directed by Henry Short. Up the River, directed by Unknown. Alice Guy...

London's Trafalgar Square is an 1890 British short silent actuality film, shot by inventors and film pioneers Wordsworth Donisthorpe and William Carr Crofts...

sufficiently critical of the regime's decadence. However, film critic Roger Ebert clarified that, in actuality, only a couple of journalists had been booing during...

Right at the end of the film, the noose tied around Topsy's neck can be seen tightening. This was one of many short "actuality" films by the Edison Manufacturing...