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Re: Theda Bara SALOME footage found
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:22 am
by Spiny Norman
Nick_M wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:48 am
ElectricPhonograph, I hope you contest the copyright claim!
Salome, being 1918, is public domain. Further, what you did is fair use.
No use. I lost an entire channel that way.
Re: Theda Bara SALOME footage found
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:44 am
by silentfilm
The archivist (Pun_dimen)who discovered the clips posted this on
Reddit three weeks ago:
While doing an internship at the National Spanish Film Archive (Filmoteca Española) I casually found approximately two minutes of "Salome" just laying in the nitrate vaults. I wasn't sure if it was the lost 1918 version or the Nazimova one made a few years later, but after checking the print there was little doubt left: it was all Theda Bara cuts spliced together! Someone in 1918 had an obvious crush on the vamp...
The intertitles are on Spanish and it has various colored fragments. After finding it I had the amazing chance of taking it to 8K scanner and making a high quality scan of the print. It took 8 hours but it was a pretty satisfying project.
I've been a longtime fan of lost media and finding this little grail proved to be quite satisfactory. Here are my hopes that someday, somewhere, we will find a copy of Cleopatra, The Mountain Eagle and many more!
Re: Theda Bara SALOME footage found
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:46 pm
by bgp
silentfilm wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:44 am
The archivist (Pun_dimen)who discovered the clips posted this on
Reddit three weeks ago:
While doing an internship at the National Spanish Film Archive (Filmoteca Española) I casually found approximately two minutes of "Salome" just laying in the nitrate vaults. I wasn't sure if it was the lost 1918 version or the Nazimova one made a few years later, but after checking the print there was little doubt left: it was all Theda Bara cuts spliced together! Someone in 1918 had an obvious crush on the vamp...
The intertitles are on Spanish and it has various colored fragments. After finding it I had the amazing chance of taking it to 8K scanner and making a high quality scan of the print. It took 8 hours but it was a pretty satisfying project.
I've been a longtime fan of lost media and finding this little grail proved to be quite satisfactory. Here are my hopes that someday, somewhere, we will find a copy of Cleopatra, The Mountain Eagle and many more!
Wow, scanned it at 8k. I'd love to see it in at least 4k resolution.