Greg, I totally agree that reading and viewing the original artifacts is prerequisite to learning about history. Still, theatrical plays, films, poems, songs, games etc. have their roles in the relationship between living persons and history; this is a necessity of human condition, distinct from the strife for scientific truth. Think of Shakespeare. Some "reenacting" experiments are in fact of value for scientific research, e.g. to test hypotheses. -

On second inspection of frogprince's opus, I found that it is amateurishly pieced together from (at least) two photos, and that large areas are retouched ("shopped"), perhaps to make a TV camera disappear. Well, Mudcatters are so credulous, even the atheists ...