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No surviving footage other than the aforementioned twenty second clip is known to exist. It has fallen into a category with 1922 Stroheim Director's Cut of ''Greed'' as a "holy grail" amongst movie collectors.
No surviving footage other than the aforementioned twenty second clip is known to exist. It has fallen into a category with 1922 Stroheim Director's Cut of ''Greed'' as a "holy grail" amongst movie collectors.


a link to raise funds for a reconstruction can be found here  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lost-cleopatra-video-project#/
==Surviving Footage==
==Surviving Footage==
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{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWn7L2pL5dI|640x480|center|The surviving 20 seconds.|frame}}

Revision as of 03:48, 21 May 2016

ThedaBara-Cleopatra.jpg

Main actress Theda Bara in one of her "risque" outfits in the film.

Status: Lost


Cleopatra is a 1917 silent film starring Theda Bara. [1] This is one of her many silent-era films to be lost (only 4 are still known to exist). Of this two and a half hour long film, only 20 seconds have survived.

Many believe the film to be among the most elaborate and expensive of its time. The film is known for Bara's risque outfits, and some claim that her privates were exposed several times throughout the movie.[2] This caused the film to be labeled as "obscene", and many church organizations tried obtaining copies of the film to destroy them. Historians and collectors scrambled to save as many copies as they could. The last known copies of the film were destroyed in a studio vault fire in the 1930's, and the film has never been seen in its entirety since.

No surviving footage other than the aforementioned twenty second clip is known to exist. It has fallen into a category with 1922 Stroheim Director's Cut of Greed as a "holy grail" amongst movie collectors.

a link to raise funds for a reconstruction can be found here https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lost-cleopatra-video-project#/

Surviving Footage

The surviving 20 seconds.

References

  1. Wikipedia article Retrieved 15 Mar '16.
  2. Silent Era article Retrieved 15 Mar '16.