Salome
by Ian Gledhill
Title
Salome
Artist
Ian Gledhill
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
1918 film Salome, starring Theda Bara. It was a follow-up film to Cleopatra, released the previous year,which was a huge box-office success and which caused a scandal because of Bara’s very risque costumes.
Salome was one of the first ‘Super-Productions’, a new breed of big-budget feature-length movies in contrast to the shorter films usually made during the silent-movie era. Other super-productions were Cleopatra, Quo Vadis and The Birth of a Nation which all heralded big profits for both the studios and picture-houses.
Salome was created to capitalize on this market, and to emulate Cleopatra‘s success. Church groups protested against the film because of the poetic license used in adapting the original bible story of Salome and John the Baptist, whereas the outcry against Bara’s seductive dance of the 7 veils and her scandalous costumes probably just boosted audience numbers further.
Some two thousand actors were used in the filming of Salome along with around 800 craftsmen employed to build a reproduction of Jerusalem for the set.
Vintage 1918 French movie poster reproduced digital art on canvas.
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September 8th, 2017
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