After all, the first robot movie was not Metropolis. 😮

A new Melies’ short was recently found!

#Melies #Robot #movie

Collaborating with the best photographer ever Patricia Voulgaris on my #magic artist residency project for next January #chateaudorquevaux #roberthoudin #melies #hollywoodmagiccastle #chicagomagiclounge

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“Equally delighted was Bill McFarland, the donor who had driven the box of films from his home in Grand Rapids, Michigan…

His great-grandfather, William Delisle Frisbee, had been a potato farmer and schoolteacher in western Pennsylvania by day […]

Gugusse et l'Automate Gugusse the clown appears to control the actions of Pierrot Automate, a child-sized automaton standing on a pedestal. By turning a crank, Gugusse makes him march and wave a stick. As Gugusse turns the crank, the automaton gets bigger until it is the size of a grown man. Suddenly the automaton is controlling his own limbs. He hits Gugusse on the head with his stick. Gugusse pulls the automaton off the pedestal and picks up a large hammer. As Gugusse pounds the automaton on the head, he gets smaller and smaller. At the final stroke of the hammer, he disappears.

Recently rediscovered #Méliès short #film Gugusse et l'Automate
https://www.loc.gov/item/2026125501/

Yay! A lost film from the director George Melies has been found after 129 years #lostmedia #lostfilm #foundmedia #foundfilm #georgemelies #melies

Fast 90 Prozent aller Stummfilme gelten als verloren. Schön, wenn ab und an doch wieder einer auftaucht, wie die Library of Congress erklärt: #film #meliès

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Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

An 1897 #Melies film, thought lost for a century, has been rediscovered and restored by the @librarycongress.bsky.social. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library The reels of film were old and battered and no one knew what was on them. They were from before World War I and had been shuttled around from basements to barns to garages and had just been dropped off at the Library. There were about 10 of them and they were rusted. Some were misshapen. The nitrate film stock had crumbled to bits on some; other strips were stuck together. The librarians peeled them apart and gently looked them over, frame by frame. And there, on one film, was a black star painted onto a pedestal in the center of the screen. The action was of a magician and a robot battling it out in slapstick fashion. It took a bit, but then the gasp of realization: They were looking at “Gugusse and the Automaton,” a long-lost film by the iconic French filmmaker George Méliès at his Star Film company. The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot, which had endeared it to generations of science fiction fans, even if they knew it only by reputation. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. The find, made last September but now being announced publicly, is a small but important addition to the legacy of world cinema and one of its founders. <span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> “This story is one that you see movies or television shows written about,” says Jason Evans Groth, curator of the Library’s moving image section. “This is one of the collections that makes you realize why you do this,” said Courtney Holschuh, the archive technician who unraveled the film. (Here’s how they did it.) Equally delighted was Bill McFarland, the donor who had driven the box of films from his home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the Library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, to have the cache evaluated. His great-grandfather, William Delisle Frisbee, had been a potato farmer and schoolteacher in western Pennsylvania by day, but by night he was a traveling showman. He drove his horse and buggy from town to town to dazzle the locals with a projector and some of the world’s first moving pictures. He set up shop in a local schoolroom, church, lodge or civic auditorium and showed magic lantern slides and short films with music from a newfangled phonograph. It was shocking. “They must have been thrilled,” McFarland said. “They must have been out of their minds to see this motion picture and to hear the Edison phonograph.” A Méliès film would have been an unforgettable experience to almost anyone in the 19th century. A prominent French stage magician, he turned to filmmaking as soon as he saw the Lumière brothers’ world-first motion pictures in Paris in 1895. That a camera could rapidly project a series of still images on film and thus make them appear to move – “motion pictures” – was seen as a magic trick unto itself. Méliès built his own camera and a glass studio (like a greenhouse) in Paris. He filmed ordinary scenes at first, but after accidentally discovering that a jump cut appeared on film as an astonishing transformation, he pioneered other tricks such as double exposure, black screens and forced perspective. All of these became staples of cinema. On screen, he could make a man appear to take off his head and flip it in the air, or a woman disappear, reappear and double. He was also a devotee of the science fiction work of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and his films often featured surreal, fantastical sets and manic action. An image from his most famous film, “A Trip to the Moon” – that of a rocket landing in the eye of the man on the moon – became _the_ image representing early cinema. It now plays at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His 1896 short, “Le Manoir du Diable,” is considered to be the world’s first horror film. More than a century later, his lasting impact was exemplified in Martin Scorcese’s 2011 film “Hugo,” about a boy and an automaton in 1931 Paris. An elderly Méliès – by then, as in real life, a toy-shop owner largely forgotten by the world – appears as the boy’s soft-spoken savior. “Gugusse,” for its part, is a one-shot, one-reel short filmed iin front of a painted screen made to look like a workshop in which clocks and automatons were being made. For centuries, inventors and engineers had made wind-up automatons – contraptions full of gears and levers with a shell that looked like a person – that could, as the gears unwound, do all sorts of things, even writing and drawing. In “Gugusse,” the magician (Méliès), winds up an automaton dressed like the famous clown Pierrot, which is standing on a pedestal. Once wound up, the clown begins to beat the magician with his walking stick. The magician retaliates by getting a huge sledgehammer and bashing the automaton over the head, with each blow seeming to shrink it in half, until it is just a small doll. The magician then smashes it into the floor. Méliès made more than 500 films but never progressed beyond his early technical achievements. The film world passed him by. In World War I, the negatives for most of his films were melted down for silver and celluloid, and he burned more himself after the war. But because his work had once been so popular – and because of widespread pirating – duplicate copies remained, and today about 300 of his films are known to exist. The Library has about 60. The “Gugusse” print McFarland gave to the Library is a duplicate at least three times removed from the original. _The print of “Gugusse” was a duplicate at least three times removed from the original print and was in extremely delicate condition when it arrived at the Library. Photo: Shawn Miller. National Audio-Visual Conservation Center._ Library technicians spent more than a week scanning and stabilizing it onto a digital format, so that it can now be seen by anyone online – in 4K, no less. The cache of Frisbee’s exhibition films also contained another well-known Méliès film from 1900, “The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match,” as well as fragments of an early Thomas Edison film, “The Burning Stable.” They survived due to McFarland and his family preserving them for a century, if often in haphazard circumstances. After Frisbee died in 1937, two small trunks of his old projectors and films, along with some of his diaries and papers, went to his daughter (McFarland’s grandmother), who passed them along to her son (McFarland’s dad), who passed them along to him. McFarland didn’t know what was on the reels – they could no longer be safely run through a projector – and after years of searching for a home for them, a lab technician in Michigan suggested he contact the Library. “The moment we set our eyes on this box of film, we knew it was something special,” said George Willeman, the Library’s nitrate film vault leader. McFarland, relieved to have finally found a home for his family’s treasure chest, found it all fascinating, the films and the diaries of his wandering showman of a great-grandfather. “He talks about full houses, and rowdy houses, and canceled shows, and he went all the way to the Pennsylvania-Maryland line, and I think into Ohio as well,” he said. “He made as much as $20 bucks a night, I see in his records, and sometimes he made $1.35 for the night, you know?” It was, this deep dive into the old boxes and trunks in the attic, a magic trick known to researchers, historians and librarians – documents from another time drawing you back into a world gone by. _Subscribe_ _to the blog— it’s free!_

Lost 19th century #film by #Méliès discovered at the Library, Gugusse et l'Automate
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Le premier #robot au ciné

“White. A blank page or canvas” #artofmagic @studio_chateau_orquevaux #dayone #creativity @magiccastlehollywood #melies #maisondelamagie

Georges Melies:el ilusionista que llevó la magia al cine #shorts #historiadelcine #cinemahistory #georgesmelies #melies #cine

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Happy Birthday Georges Méliès!
(December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938)
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#Melies #GeorgesMelies #GeorgesMéliès #TripToTheMoon #Moon #Cinema #Film #EarlyFilm #Surrealism #FrenchFilm

Week-end d’inauguration de la nouvelle salle Méliès au cinéma Jacques Prévert à Aulnay-sous-Bois du 18 au 21 septembre 2025 - Aulnaylibre ! WEEK-END D’INAUGURATION DE LA NOUVELLE SALLE MÉLIÈS C’est avec une grande joie que nous vous proposons un week-end festif pour célébrer la rénovation de la Salle Méliès ! Nouveaux fauteuils, nouvel éc...

Week-end d’inauguration de la nouvelle salle Méliès au cinéma Jacques Prévert à Aulnay-sous-Bois du 18 au 21 septembre 2025 #aulnay #melies #cinema #prevert www.aulnaylibre.com/2025/09/week...

Méliès, de VV. AA. Blog de la editorial Libros del Innombrable

20 AÑOS SIN ANTONIO FERNÁNDEZ MOLINA, 3
Méliès
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#20AñosSinFernándezMolina
#LibrosDelInnombrable
#afmolina #postismo #librosdelinnombrable
#MovieMagic #ensayos #cine #ensayosobrecine #melies #origenesdelcine

De nouveaux sièges pour la salle Méliès du théâtre et cinéma Jacques Prévert à Aulnay-sous-Bois - Aulnaylibre ! Cet été, la salle Méliès fait peau neuve ! De nouveaux sièges vont être installés pour offrir aux amateurs de cinéma une expérience encore plus confortable et inoubliable au théâtre et cinéma Jacques ...

De nouveaux sièges pour la salle Méliès du théâtre et cinéma Jacques Prévert à Aulnay-sous-Bois #aulnay #cinema #melies www.aulnaylibre.com/2025/07/de-n...

Non, pas de toutes les salles obscures. Heureusement, d'excellents cinémas, tels le #Melies à Montreuil, n'en proposent pas.
Le pop-corn c'est la calamité des salles de ciné. Ça fait du bruit quand on pioche dans le carton et quand on mache la bouche ouverte. Sans parler de celui qui finit au sol.

This was a lot of material to go through, but it was a lot of fun too. Melies was a true visionary. I doubt this will ever see a Blu-ray release, so you might as well...

#filmsky #moviesky #physicalmedia #melies

These are actually pretty well restored and much better looking than the ones on the larger DVD set. The Kingdom of the Fairies is possibly my favorite of his.

#filmsky #melies #fantasy #earlycinema #moviesky #physicalmedia #filmhistory

#Horror Released May 13

THE BEWITCHED INN [L'Auberge ensorcelée] (1899)

This Méliès haunted inn trick film actually premiered in France in 1897, but the exact date is not known (at this time). It later premiered in NYC in 1899 on this day.

#SilentHorror #EarliestHorrorFilms #Melies

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Ars Mecanica Luna
#melies #moon #watches #ai #midjourney

Gracias #eMule por este maravilloso descubrimiento

Georges Méliès. First Wizard of Cinema (El Primer Mago del Cine)
#GeorgesMelies #Melies

#Paris from #Notredame #Cathedral edited to look like #silentera a la #Melies and #FritzLang #grain #noise #retro #expressionist #retrostyle #France #vignette #gargoyle #gothic #cityscape #architecture #horror #nyphotographer #travel #travelphotography #monochromatic #blackandwhite #hunchback

Suite 1902

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- John D. Rockefeller senior créé le General Education Board -> supplée à la carence de l'État dans le domaine de l"Education, jusqu'au moment où les élus admettent la nécessité de tels services.

#year1902

Souvenirs... #Melies #TripToTheMoon #Mauclaire

2.- Georges Méliès(size A5, available for purchase). #inktober #inktober2023 #ink #director #cinema #movies #georgesmelies #melies #directober

En el cielo azul no hay videos pero aquí os traigo en exclusiva el vídeo de la caída de Piqué, solo hay que pasar las fotos muy rápido.
#Melies

Journée "Magie & Cinéma" 3 avril 2022 COMPLET La billetterie est désormais fermée

A l'occasion du 120è anniversaire du "Voyage dans la lune" de #Melies, une journée exceptionnelle "Magie et Cinéma" est organisée à Paris le dimanche 3 avril 2022.
Plus d'infos:

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Passionnante lettre de la @cstis, avec un dossier consacré au @Dolby #Atmos, un entretien avec Laurent Mannoni de la @cinemathequefr sur l'exposition #Melies, un article sur @assomo5 l’association dédiée
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ENOHA FAIT SON CINÉMA #fetedeslumieres #fdl2017 @villedelyon #cinema #melies

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#Ciné-concert Envie de couleur! le 1/11 à la CINEMATEK @Cinematekbe #Melies #Chomon #Velle

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