"The 45-second film, Gugusse and the Automaton, was made in 1897 - just two years after the Lumière Brothers staged the world's first public screening of a movie in Paris."
"Méliès, a theatrical showman and magician, attended that screening and was inspired to make films of his own. He is most famous for A Trip to the Moon (1902) with its iconic scene of a rocket landing in the eye of the man in the Moon."
"By a decade later, his filmmaking had fallen out of vogue. Méliès ended up as a toy seller in Paris' Gare Montparnasse train station - a story that was dramatised in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film, Hugo."
A wooden trunk, passed down through generations, contained a cinematic treasure unknown to its keeper, Bill McFarland. After 20 years of ownership, McFarland discovered a lost short film by Georges Méliès while visiting the Library of Congress. The film, Gugusse and the Automaton, was made in 1897, shortly after the first public movie screening. Méliès, a pioneer of special effects, later fell out of favor and became a toy seller, a story depicted in the film Hugo.
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