La Charcuterie mécanique

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Work

Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

1

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

La Charcuterie mécanique (The Mechanical Butcher) is an 1895 "humorous subject" (as classed by its makers) created by the Lumière Brothers. In Phil Hardy's The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction it is listed as the first ever science fiction film.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “La Charcuterie mécanique”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Brothers Lumière, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.