actuality

noun

Etymology: From actual + -ity. * (television): Influenced by French actualité.

1. The state of existing; existence.
2. An instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact.

   “"It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well."”

3. Live reporting on current affairs.

   “A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.”

   “This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.”

4. A short early motion picture.

   “By 1903, the actuality film had reached its peak; in 1903, the Edison and Biograph companies, combined, registered three hundred fifty one actuality films for copyright protection. By 1908 that number had dropped to two.”