Wonderful to see @librarycongress.bsky.social's restoration of George Méliès' long-lost 1897 film "Gugusse et l'Automate" (Gugusse and the automaton). This is the first depiction on film of an automaton (or robot, to use a term that wouldn't be coined until 1920) blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...
Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's
