Chloe Veltman
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The 45 second long silent film Gugus i l'Automate, or Gugus and the Automaton, is nearly 130 years old.
But the subject matter feels very timely.
A child-sized robot clown grows to the size of an adult and then attacks a human clown with a stick.
The human then destroys the machine with a hammer.
In an Instagram post, Library of Congress Moving Image curator Jason Evans-Groff says the film arrived in a box from a donor in Michigan, Bill McFarland.
McFarland's great-grandfather, William Delisle Frisbee, a Pennsylvania potato farmer and schoolteacher, was fascinated by new technologies.
The film is available on the Library of Congress's website.
Meet Me at the Zoo is a 19-second long video shot in front of the elephant enclosure at San Diego Zoo.
YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim speaks to the camera.
In an article on its website, the Victoria and Albert Museum said the video, quote, captures a significant moment in the history of the internet and web design.
It acquired three YouTube-related artefacts, the Me at the Zoo video file, YouTube's original front-end website code from December 2006, and copies of YouTube advertisements from December 2006 and January 2007.
The museum worked with YouTube and a design studio to reconstruct the elements for its collection.
Meet Me at the Zoo is a 19-second long video shot in front of the elephant enclosure at San Diego Zoo.
YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim speaks to the camera.
The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long front legs.
In an article on its website, the Victoria and Albert Museum said the video, quote, "...captures a significant moment in the history of the internet and web design.
It acquired three YouTube-related artefacts, the Me at the Zoo video file, YouTube's original front-end website code from December 2006, and copies of YouTube advertisements from December 2006 and January 2007.
The museum worked with YouTube and a design studio to reconstruct the elements for its collection."