L'Affaire Dreyfus, attentat contre maître Labori

From today's perspective, we would call this installment an “action episode”, as a murder takes place here. Given the year it was made, however, an even more interesting element is found in the masterful direction, which provides hints of depth of space. Multiple characters in the frame carry out different activities, and the killer's actual escape is handled in such a way that Méliès, perhaps unwittingly, for the first time breaks with the two-dimensional nature of his mise-en-scene and to some extent breaks with the theatrical tradition of filmmaking. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)