Salome (1918) Fragments Rediscovered

[BettyLouSpence]

https://vimeo.com/610569864

This is amazing news! Short snippets from Theda's lost Salome were rediscovered yesterday at the Filmoteca Española in Spain, and are shown here on their Vimeo channel. Doesn't look like footage taken from the films narrative itself, but rather a short compilation of Theda-centric scenes.

[Kitty]

That's so cool! Some good footage here. Also this video includes a short cartoon and a small fragment (?) of a 1903 film.

[donnie]

My, I wish we could see that! Theda’s expressions are a thing to behold in a good, sharp print.

[BettyLouSpence]

Looks like the person who found and digitized the footage posted about it on Reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comm ... irect=true

Watch it here!

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!

[dachshundonstilts]

From a quick search, it looks as if the 1903 film, "L'Ours et la Sentinelle," was a 2-minute short that was recovered and restored in 2016.

[Kitty]

From a quick search, it looks as if the 1903 film, "L'Ours et la Sentinelle," was a 2-minute short that was recovered and restored in 2016.

Cool! Thanks for the info.

[BettyLouSpence]

The original Vimeo now requires a password to view, so here's the footage (sans music) from the Theda Bara Fan Page channel on YouTube.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zH0_gZuXjO0