The short silent film "Gugusse and the Automaton" by French cinema pioneer Georges Melies had been lost to history until it was found in a trove of film reels donated to the US Library of Congress
Spliced in the middle of one of the 10 reels found in an attic was a lost short film by Georges Melies, a French cinema pioneer -- the first to experiment with fictional narratives and special effects at the very dawn of moving pictures.
13 April 2026