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A rare 1897 film discovered in an old trunk in Michigan features the first on-screen appearance of a robot

In a battered trunk full of his great-grandfather’s nitrate film rolls, a Michigan man discovered a relic of filmmaking history: a copy of “Gugusse and the Automaton,” a long-lost 45-second film by ...
WAMC

A new Blu-ray set brings to light a vanished period of early filmmaking

A newly-released Blu-ray set spotlights a vanished era of pre-Hollywood filmmaking. The two-disc set is titled Made in New Jersey: Films from Fort Lee, America’s First Film Town. It was researched and ...
NPR

The first appearance of a robot on film has made its way to the Library of Congress

The first appearance on film of what might be called a robot has made its way to the Library of Congress. Filmmaking pioneer Georges Melies created the 45-second film strip in 1897, but it was ...
The Times Leader

In Frame: What became of the first full-length color film in the Wyoming Valley?

In preparation for writing this column each week, I spend a lot of time digging through newspaper archives, researching the ...
insider.si.edu

Cameras into the wild : a history of early wildlife and expedition filmmaking, 1895-1928 / Palle B. Petterson

Introduction -- getting around the subject -- 1895-1902: first attempts to make nature films -- 1903-1906: nature and wildlife films take-and make use of-form -- 1907-1910: exploring borderlines -- ...