Family’s collection of old films no one wanted turns out to contain only copy of world’s first sci-fi flick

2026-04-19 20:27 • ;Brandon Cruz
A Pennsylvania man spent years trying to offload his great-grandfather’s trunk of old silent films with no luck — until the Library of Congress discovered it held the last known copy of the world’s first sci-fi movie. For years, Bill McFarland lugged two dusty trunks full of his great-grandfather’s old films to antique stores and...
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