Source: New York Post
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 museums and he even listed them to eBay, but nobody wanted them until a film digitizing company recognized its value and pointed him toward the Library of Congress, according to local outlet the Times Observer. 3 Bill McFarland 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 copy of the world’s first sci-fi movie.
