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A Trip to the Moon
190215mSilent
Baron Munchausen's Dream
191111mSilent
Bluebeard
190110mSilent
Cinderella or the Glass Slipper
191324mSilent
Gugusse and the Automaton
18971mSilent
Le château hanté
18971mSilent
Le manoir du diable
18964mSilent
On the Roof
18971mSilent
The Astronomer's Dream
19003mSilent
The Bewitched Inn
18972mSilent
The Brahmin and the Butterfly
19012mSilent
The Conquest of the Pole
191233mSilent

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Georges Méliès
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Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library (opens blogs.loc.gov in a new tab)
Library of Congress nitrate vault staff identify and restore Georges Méliès's long-lost 1897 short Gugusse and the Automaton, often cited as the first on-screen robot.

Library of Congress

1 Feb 2026

Essay

silentfilm.org

Cinema’s First Virtuoso: Georges Méliès (opens silentfilm.org in a new tab)

By Shari KizirianSan Francisco Silent Film Festival10 Jan 2020

Essay

lcm.loc.gov

A Long-Lost Film, Finally Found (opens lcm.loc.gov in a new tab)

LoC Magazine feature on rediscovering a lost Méliès film from 1897.

Library of Congress Magazine

Essay

openculture.com

The First Horror Film, Georges Méliès' The Haunted Castle (1896) (opens openculture.com in a new tab)

Analysis of Méliès' pioneering horror film and its technical innovations in stop-motion effects.

Open Culture

On Le manoir du diable