Talk:List of actuality films by Georges Méliès

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Merger proposal

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was to merge all listed stubs. Lemuellio (talk) 13:41, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I propose that A Merry-go-Round, The Washerwomen, Coronation of a Village Maiden, Baby and Young Girls, Steamboats on River Seine, Boulevard des Italiens (film), Bois de Boulogne (Touring Club), Bois de Boulogne (Porte de Madrid), Gypsies at Home, Unloading the Boat (Havre), Boat Leaving the Harbor of Trouville, Sea Bathing, Children Playing on the Beach, Sea Breaking on the Rocks, Automobiles Starting on a Race, The Czar and His Cortège Going to Versailles, The Czar's Cortège in the Bois de Boulogne, The Potter's Cart, Place de la Concorde (film), The Bivouac, Threshing Machines Worked by Power, Officers of French Army Leaving Service, and Panorama from Top of a Moving Train all be merged into Actuality films by Georges Méliès. Advantages of doing so include the following:

All of these films share the same production background (actuality films were made by many early filmmakers and Méliès was no exception; Méliès gradually branched away from actualities into fiction and trick films, and made no more actualities after 1900). This background is already covered on the Actuality films by Georges Méliès page; writing similar material for every actuality film would create extensive repetition across Wikipedia.
All of the films concerned are lost, and all are about 20 meters long (less than a minute at most projection speeds). Thus there is very little to say about any one of them, other than the background information that applies to all the others as well. This is the main reason why all of the articles concerned are stubs.

I do recommend, however, that the following three articles concerning Méliès actuality films should not be merged with this page: Playing Cards (film), Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station, and Paris Exposition, 1900 (film series). In these special cases, there seems to be enough to say about the films as to warrant separate pages. Moreover, each is notable on its own terms (the articles describe Méliès's very first film, a film of mysterious and disputed survival status, and a documentary record spread out over seventeen short films, respectively). For all the rest of them, though, the format of having all the actualities described on a single page should be more effective than the current system.--Lemuellio (talk) 20:13, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Since the films are lost, these articles would remain stubs forever. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:35, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom & Clarityfiend - If nothing's done they will just be stubs probably forever. →Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 13:53, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support So long as the tables in the Actuality article summarise all that is known about them rather than just the title if possible.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:26, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merger completed.--Lemuellio (talk) 13:41, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.