Found: The 19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack

A screenshot from George Mélière’s Gugusse et l’Automate. The pioneering French filmmaker’s 1897 short, which likely features the first known depiction of a robot on film, was thought lost until it was found among a box of old reels that had belonged to a family in Michigan and restored by the Library of Congress. The Frisbee Collection/Library of Congress

The Frisbee Collection/Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has found and restored a long-lost silent