In one of his numerous reconstructed newsreels, the indefatigable French director,
Georges Méliès--same as
Naval Combat in Greece (1897)--he reenacts a fictional scene taking place in a fort at Tyrnavos during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. From the interior yard of a well-fortified citadel, four soldiers hold their ground against the Sultan's fez-wearing invaders; however, very soon, all that stands between the two armies will be nothing more than a heavy locked door, as the Turkish hordes break in through the gate.
—Nick Riganas