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129 Years Later, The First-Ever Sci-Fi Film Has Finally Been Found

The Library of Congress restored Georges Méliès's lost 1897 film Gugusse and the Automaton, featuring what may be cinema's first robot and earliest on-screen warning about technology dangers.

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The first appearance of a robot on film has made its way to the Library of Congress

The inquiry was like thousands of others. Somebody had potentially cool films they thought might interest the Library of Congress. But it was brand new for Jason Evans Groth... In September, he stepped outside the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, to meet Bill and Mary McFarland, who had driven from Michigan with about 40 strips of celluloid that had once belonged to Bill's great-grandfather.

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129 Years Later, The First-Ever Sci-Fi Film Has Finally Been Found

The first appearance of a robot on film has made its way to the Library of Congress

#early-cinema-history
#early-cinema-history