actualities (actualités)
A term, coined by film pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière, denoting the short films showing real-life activities (recent and topical events or news, usually with a hint of novelty, curiosity, or sensation) that predominated in cinema’s earliest years. Actualities rarely ran to more than a single ... ...
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