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

Filmmaker Georges Méliès employed some of his signature special effects techniques to create comedy in "Gugusse and the Automaton" ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A strip of film from George Méliès' 1897 short "Gugusse and the Automaton," which is thought to be the first film to feature what ...

Long-lost 'robot' film by pioneering 19th-century auteur Georges Méliès discovered and restored. A lost film by pioneering ...

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Watch: World's first robot movie found after more than a century By David Szondy March 08, 2026 Gugusse et l'Automate is thought to be the very first movie to feature a robot Library of Congress View ...

The Library of Congress has restored a long-lost 1897 Georges Méliès short film, Gugusse and the Automaton, believed to feature cinema’s earliest robot. The 45-second reel was found in a deteriorating ...

Credit: Shawn Miller. National Audio-Visual Conservation Center/Library of Congress/Cover Images A lost film by pioneering French filmmaker Georges Méliès has been discovered in the U.S. and restored.