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Méliès film missing for 100 years rediscovered in American attic

An American accidentally discovered a lost film by French filmmaker Georges Méliès in an attic, recovering a cinematographic heritage work missing for a century.

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This exceptional find illustrates the fragility of early silent cinema archival preservation.

The rediscovery enriches the known Méliès corpus and opens new perspectives on his work and innovative techniques.

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