A 1938 sci-fi film about climate change was lost. It's making its TV debut 83 years later

In 1938, 20-year-old filmmaker Richard H. Lyford directed and starred in As the Earth Turns, a science-fiction silent movie about a mad scientist who purposely induces climate change as a way to end world violence.

But the 45-minute film became "lost," only to resurface 80 years later, in 2018, when Lyford's grandniece, Kim Lyford Bishop, discovered it. — Read the rest