129 Years Later, The First-Ever Sci-Fi Film Has Finally Been Found

129 Years Later, The First-Ever Sci-Fi Film Has Finally Been Found

Library of CongressIt’s not every day you get to watch a nearly 130-year-old movie and feel the joy of new discovery. Thanks to the U.S. Library of Congress, a movie long-considered the first piece of science fiction cinema — and more pertinently, long-considered lost — has now been found, restored, and stabilized: Georges Méliès’s Gugusse et l'Automate, or Gugusse and the Automaton. You can watch it right now in 4K and see what might be the fir…

Gugusse and the Automaton

The Library of Congress recently discovered a copy of a “long-lost” film made in ~1897 by George Méliès called Gugusse and the Automaton (Gugusse et l’Automate), which “had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century” and “was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot”. It’s also one of the first science fiction films ever made. You can watch a digitized copy of the whole film here (it’s only 45 seconds long): And he…