The oldest-known surviving film based on the work of Charles Dickens has been found, reported the BBC, with "The Death of Poor Joe" to be screened in London today, over a century after it was made.

The 1901 silent film, which was inspired by part of Dickens' novel "Bleak House," was shot by an early visionary British filmmaker, G.A. Smith, in Brighton, said The Telegraph.

The one-minute film shows Joe, believed played by Smith's wife and acress Laura Bayley, perishing amidst a snowstorm.

British Film Institute curator Bryony Dixon stumbled across the footage the day after the 200th annivsary of Dickens' birth last month.

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Dixon found the film mislabeled in the institute's archive system while working on a project on early Chinese film, reported BBC. She hailed the find as "the icing on the cake of our current celebration of Dickens on Screen."

There are plans to release the film on DVD, said BBC. It will be screened again in London on March 23. 

In 1901, filmmaker Smith also produced adaptions of "A Christmas Carol" and "Scrooge, or Marley's Ghost," said the Telegraph.