“Gugusse et l’Automate" is a 45-second slapstick film featuring a magician and a Pierrot-styled robot as they duke it out. It's a long-lost work by the iconic French director Georges Méliès.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/gugusse-et-lautomate-georges-melies/
On #InternationalWomensDay, I wrote a piece commemorating Avis Waterman, the forgotten war correspondent of The Times. Appointed Milan Correspondent in May 1915, during 1915-17 she was attached to the Italian army & reported about the fighting between Italy & Austria-Hungary in the Trentino and on the Isonzo.
After #WWI she fell into oblivion & died impoverished & lonely in Paris in 1939.
#Women
#Journalism
#WarReporting
#WomensHistory
#JournalismHistory
#MediaHistory
https://stephanieseul.com/2026/03/avis-waterman/

During the First World War, a woman defied the odds and became a foreign and war correspondent for The Times of London, one of the oldest and most prestigious newspapers in the world. %
Today's unsolicited opinion:
People who loudly complain online that Gomez Addams is not handsome enough for Mortitia have missed the point of the whole entire concept of the Addams family.