Theda Bara's Cleopatra 100th Anniversary

[Kitty]

Today is the 100th anniversary of the release of Theda Bara's lost Cleopatra (1917). To honor this film, please watch this re-imagined 3 minute video. The music is not my favorite but it will do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dknl61BlNIU&t=1s

[donnie]

That's pretty well done!

[Mrs. Danvers]

That was awesome, oh how we all wish that movie was still around. I rather liked the melodramatic music.

[Kitty]

I'm glad you guys enjoyed that!! Welcome back, Mrs. Danvers!!

[Mrs. Danvers]

Thank you Kitty, I have been off wandering up and down the coast. I'll be more participatory now that I am back to the internet.

I had to change my picture to Theda for a bit, that's how I spend most of my days, lounging around smelling flowers.

[Kitty]

I love it!

[dachshundonstilts]

I like that. It's always tragic to think that something like 75% of silent films are lost forever. All the work that went into them...

[Kitty]

It's even more amazing, though, the amount of films we have against those that are lost. Can you imagine the sheer number of films that were made in that era? Astonishing!

[dachshundonstilts]

It is. They really (and literally) cranked them out.

[Mrs. Danvers]

I think that would have been just a magical time to be alive, the early days of film making. All my life I have been obsessed with the late teens and 1920s. The cars and the clothes and the early cinema stars.