Méliès’ film, a minute-long work titled Gugusse and the Automaton, contains what might be the first on-screen depiction of a robot.

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Considered lost for over a century, Georges Méliès' 'Gugusse and the Automaton' features cinema’s earliest robot.

A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema.

A long-lost 1897 George Melies film, arguably the first robot science fiction story committed to film, has made its way to the Library of Congress.

Here's a Super Bowl alternative for Sunday — a live movie concert celebrating the magical work of pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès at the Balboa Theatre. Méliès may not be a household name, but ...

A piece of techno-cinematic history has emerged as the US Library of Congress releases the restored video of the oldest film to feature a "robot." Dating from 1897, the silent film Gugusse et ...

The legacy of the robot in film is a long and storied one, whether we’re considering such synthetic cinematic luminaries as Andy Kaufman’s character Val in 1981 comedy Heartbeeps, or Bernadette Peters ...

Cinema history has always been linked to technology, but a recent find pushes back ...

Take audiences on a fantastic journey! In order to showcase the pictures and narratives in the fantastic worlds of such films as "The Impossible Voyage" or burlesque universes in such shorts as "The ...

Georges Méliès, aka the "Cinemagician," will have yet another work reach the big screen with the “Right in the Eye” performance series. On Feb. 24, Sedona’s intimate Mary D. Fisher Theatre will be ...