The Library of Congress has found and restored a long-lost silent film by Georges Méliès. The famed 19th century French filmmaker is best known for his groundbreaking 1902 science fiction adventure ...

Le court métrage muet de 45 secondes, mettant en scène un personnage à barbe et un petit clown Pierrot, a été déniché au domicile d’un Américain. Il s’agissait d’une collection de son ...

A piece of techno-cinematic history has emerged as the US Library of Congress releases the restored video of the oldest film to feature a "robot." Dating from 1897, the silent film Gugusse et ...

In a battered trunk full of his great-grandfather’s nitrate film rolls, a Michigan man discovered a relic of filmmaking history: a copy of “Gugusse and the Automaton,” a long-lost 45-second film by ...

It’s not every day you get to watch a nearly 130-year-old movie and feel the joy of new discovery. Thanks to the U.S. Library of Congress, a movie long-considered the first piece of science fiction ...

Cinema history has always been linked to technology, but a recent find pushes back the timeline for robots on screen. For years, historians saw the 1927 film Metropolis or the 1920 Czech play R.U.R.

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Gugusse and the Automaton, a lost 1897 Georges Méliès film, has finally been rediscovered, and leaves the blueprint for ...

A long-lost film by Georges Méliès, the French pioneer of early cinema, has been discovered in a garage in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For the past two decades, Bill McFarland has looked after a ...

Un court métrage égaré de notre visionnaire national vient d’être restauré et partagé par la Bibliothèque du Congrès américain. Quarante-cinq secondes féeriques où, dans la peau d’un Pierrot, le ...

Retrouvé aux États-Unis, Gugusse et l'automate a été restauré par des archivistes de la Bibliothèque du Congrès. Ce film avait été tourné par le Français Georges Méliès, considéré comme étant ...

A screenshot from George Méliès's Gugusse et l'Automate. The pioneering French filmmaker's 1897 short, which likely features the first known depiction of a robot on film, was thought lost until it was ...