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Independent films
fromColossal
5 days ago

Lost for More Than a Century, the First 'Sci-Fi' Film Ever Made Resurfaces

A lost 1897 Georges Méliès silent film resurfaces after over a century through a family collection, now digitally restored and publicly available in 4K.
Independent films
fromInverse
6 days ago

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.
fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

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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fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Melies Film from 1897

Georges Méliès' rediscovered film 'Gugusse and the Automaton' features cinema's earliest known robot, predating modern science-fiction cinema by over a century.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

Found: The 19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack

The Library of Congress restored a lost 1897 Georges Melies film depicting an early robot, representing probably the first robot captured in moving image.
Film
from48 hills
3 weeks ago

Screen Grabs: End of days at Fear and Faith Horror Festival-plus other new flicks to help scream it out - 48 hills

Weekend film events include films about Japanese American incarceration, Tadashi Nakamura’s Third Act, and Georges Méliès shorts with live music.
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