Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis
Production of Méliès's "The Dreyfus Affair" began while the real-life Alfred Dreyfus's trial was proceeding in Rennes. The series was made entirely in Méliès's Star Films studio in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, though with a strong emphasis on cinematic realism markedly different from the energetic theatrical style used in Méliès's better-known fantasy films. The series is an elaborate example of Méliès's "actualitiés reconstituées" ("reconstructed actualities"), films in which current events were recreated in an evocative docudrama-like format.