{"id":8442,"date":"2026-04-13T09:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/8442\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:28:20","slug":"lost-film-of-french-cinema-pioneer-retrieved-from-us-attic-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/8442\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost film of French cinema pioneer retrieved from US attic \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Lost film of French cinema pioneer retrieved from US attic \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xGDssG3_-Ag\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLost film of French cinema pioneer retrieved from US attic \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe battered wooden trunk had been in the family for a century, shifted from attic to barn to garage. No one knew a cinematic treasure was inside. That was until retired high school teacher Bill McFarland&#8217;s curiosity got the better of him. Spliced in the middle of one of 10 reels was a lost short film by Georges Melies, a French cinema pioneer \u2013 the first to experiment with fictional narratives and special effects at the very dawn of moving pictures.<br \/>\n#France #USA #cinema<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lost film of French cinema pioneer retrieved from US attic \u2022 FRANCE 24 English The battered wooden trunk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6413,644,5469,1241,76,6877,50,22,23,20,21,12337,650,31,12338,412,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-8442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france24","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-cinema","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-film","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-france-24","16":"tag-france-24-english","17":"tag-france24","18":"tag-france24-english","19":"tag-georges-melies","20":"tag-infos","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-treasure","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116397460885129461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}