Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long-lost 'robot' film by pioneering 19th-century auteur Georges Méliès discovered and restored. A lost film by pioneering French ...

Bill McFarland from Grand Rapids, Mich., found his great-grandfather's collection in his family's old trunk ...

Georges Méliès made over 500 films. This one vanished - until a Michigan family showed up with an old trunk.

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

A long-lost film by Georges Méliès, the French pioneer of early cinema, has been discovered in a garage in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For the past two decades, Bill McFarland has looked after a ...

What began as a routine day for Library of Congress librarians turned into a major find when they discovered a lost 1897 film featuring one of cinema's earliest robots. The film, called "Gugusse and ...

A long-lost silent film that’s believed to be the first depiction of a robot in motion pictures was rediscovered in Michigan. And it’s a great reminder for film history fans that you shouldn’t give up ...

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 ...