Researchers at the Czech national film archives have found a film by early cinema pioneer Georges Méliès that was thought to have been lost forever. The two-minute silent film Match de Prestidigitation (“conjuring contest”) from 1904 was found on a reel given to the archives by an anonymous donor, labelled as another film. But our specialist immediately realised it was another film,” archives spokeswoman Jana Ulipova said. “We are planning to show the film in cinemas as part of a collection of Méliès works,” Ulipova said. A painstakingly restored colour version of Le Voyage dans la Lune was screened at France’s Cannes film festival in 2011.

Source: The Guardian October 11, 2016 16:47 UTC