Pretty outrageous stuff for the times. I wonder what people thought when they first saw this over 100 years ago...some of her looks would make a comeback in the punk/new wave era of the 80's.
you're right of course ... but the fashionistas of the Roaring `20s were quite punkish and outrageous in most of their styles back in the day ... just check out other movies and photos of the era and you'll surely agree with me ... some skirts were almost mini-jupe in some instances ... 🙂 if you watch Fritz Lang's masterpiece, Metropolis, made in the same era only a few years later, you'd see similar traits, and some full nude performances ... there were actual sexual intercourse scenes in some Hollywood movies of the pre-code era too! Hedy Lamarr acted in one such 'naughty' scene for example ...
PROBABLY THE EPITOME OF AN EARLY MASTERWORK OF THE XX CENTURY DIFFICULT TO LABEL WITH SUCH FORMIDABLE ASSEMBLAGE OF TALENT FROM DIFFERENT FINE ARTS: THE OSCAR WILDE POEM, THE STRAUSS MUSIC, THE CINEMATOGRAPHY, THE ACTING AND DANCING OF THE TROUPE, THE STAGING, THE COSTUMES, ETC. ETC. …. AND THE MAGIC OF YOU TUBE. THANK YOU GILDA FOR SUCH A MARVELOUS GIFT.
I find it difficult to read all capital letters when it should be properly written. Pathologists refer to this as early dialectic confusion. It is like impaired vision but on a pathological level. Was this comment complementary? … it seemed like a major piece of film. Anybody agree?
@@robkunkel8833I had never heard of your condition but a quick search revealed to me that it does indeed exist. I used an app called Case Converter for Android to quickly convert the complimentary comment for you: "Probably the epitome of an early masterwork of the XX century difficult to label with such formidable assemblage of talent from different fine arts: the Oscar Wilde poem, the Strauss music, the cinematography, the acting and dancing of the troupe, the staging, the costumes, etc. etc. and the magic of RUclips. Thank you, Gilda, for such a marvelous gift." Please note that this video consists only of selected scenes. There are several complete versions of the film on RUclips with different music. For the sake of comparison, I have also uploaded select scenes from "Salomé" (1969), a French film starring prima ballerina and actress, Ludmilla Tchérina.
As a passionate admirer of Alla Nazimova’s nephew Val Lewton since my teens (I’m 63) I’ve read about her many times, but until now had only seen her in stills. Thank you for a fascinating gift!
This film shows John the Baptist is as obsessed with Salome as she is with him. Locked together in a Dance of Death. I haven't seen this in a long time. Thanks for the good quality video!
Thanks for confirming Strauss is in there somewhere. It's changed enough that I really wasn't sure. Thought the score might just be making occasional allusions to the opera.
@@dontaylor7315As stated in the video description, two versions of The Dance of the Seven Veils by Richard Strauss are played in their entirety with oboe and flute solo excerpts in the middle. There is no other music in the soundtrack aside from Strauss.
Did you know that she pattern the outfits and set from the influence of AUBREY BEARDSLEY? She always fascinated me. I just adore the silent films of yesterday.
Magnificent! It must have been scandalous back in the day. They could only get away with it, if it was a biblical narrative. Beautifully edited! Thank you!
This is a jewel. The fact that my older grandfather was 3 years old when this movie was made... well, is just unbelievable and moving. My other three grandparents they didn't even exist then. Wow. Thank you so much for sharing.
Capolavoro,con gli abiti e scenografie disegnate da A.Breadsley,amico di Wilde e grande illustratore. E si riconosce il suo tocco,la modernità e la bellezza. Grandi musiche di Richard Strauss. 👏❤️
If I'm reading this correctly, and going by the film cues, during Salome's dance at first, she's getting some people hot and bothered. One of them seeming to be another woman, and a guy who gets weirdly touchy with another guy. That's kind of surprising, if the not too subtle implications are what I'm seeing here. There's a lot to take in here, it's wonderful you've given us the chance to see this today. What a joy it must be to make art like this that lives on so strongly.
@@Gruesome420 So glad you enjoyed it. Nazimova was bisexual and openly conducted relationships with women while being married to a man. “Salomé” is considered the first mainstream art movie and has long been rumored to have an all-queer cast. The script was written by the famous gay author, Oscar Wilde. Tony Bravo of the SF Chronicle called it "a queer fever dream."
New Subscriber! You caught me Gilda with this haunting film. Having been a ballet dancer I heard about the "Seven Veils" numerous times but it evaded me. Now nearly 75, it unleashed its magic thanks to you! I'm ever so grateful with love..💌
Like @GrantTarradeus, I came to this via my admiration for Val Lewton, Nazimova's nephew (he grew up in her house from the age of 5, his father having squandered the family's wealth gambling). But I also adore Richard Strauss, Oscar Wilde, the Decadent movement, and Salome's legacy as an inspiration to the early modernists. Wow. Now I must add Alla Nazimova to the pantheon. She was the catalyst for this amazing production. Her capitalization on the story's inherent critique of the male gaze in cinema is nothing short of astonishing. Thank you for sharing it!
A marvelous piece of film preservation snd a superb example of a classic silent art piece but I must say one of the least sexy Dance of the Seven Vails I’ve ever seen ! Sorry but nothing to give up much of anything for ! But the set designs are great !
Some people have been criticizing Nazimova's dance as stiff, corny, boring, ungraceful, etc. I think she danced pretty well for not being a dancer by profession. Not all dancers can act or direct as well as Alla Nazimova did. We can't have everything. Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography was also considered modern and anti-balletic. They were breaking new ground back then. Which dancer or actress of that time would you have cast in the part of Salomé? Martha Graham, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Theda Bara, Pola Negri, Vilma Banky, Louise Brooks? Do you think they would have acted as well as Nazimova? She was one of the most brilliant theater actresses of her era. Artists weren't allowed to act or dance in an overtly sensual manner in the early 1920s. The Hays Office was first established in 1922. Perhaps that's why the story of Salomé wasn't filmed more often. The only other silent film about Salomé based on Oscar Wilde's play that I could find was "A Modern Salome" (1920) starring Hope Hampton. Unfortunately, it is a lost film.
She’s fantastic actress and the entire production is impressive . But her dance abilities were very limited. Worst bourees ever but it’s amazing for the time and very enjoyable.
I was just thinking that even I could improvise a dance of this quality, and I can't dance to save my life. 😂 And Herod's overreaction when she hasn't even started moving yet is just hysterical. It's an interesting artifact of early film, for sure!
@@michaelmiller2397 This video was uploaded a month ago. The complete film and excerpts have been available on RUclips for years. No disrespect is intended towards the cousin of Jesus. Happy Saint John the Baptist Day!
When The Huntington Hartford Museum at 2 Columbus Circle (now something else) inaugurated it's film program in the late 1960s, the first film shown was Salome starring Nazimova. The guest for the day was Oscar Wilde's (now elderly) youngest son! His name was now Vyvyan Holland and he was the author of cook books.
Hold on, it has to be two comments, the imaginary script and imaginary director said so. But the previous David lynch vintage interview and the tiery muggler ‘95 fashion show dropped into the feed by puppet strings, says nobody visited the baby in laindon or Basildon, or Melbourne. Should there be a new twined with sign going up erasing the old twinned with Beirut one? I will just read through this old winnifred Aldrich pattern cutting book again and see what their suggestions were and who too. Oh it doesn’t say who too; maybe wind in the willows also inspired the house of Fred & rose west; who on earth could have possibly made that much disturbance for a sense of hierarchical power & prestige. You know, there’s something cacophonously peaceful about acknowledging reality and all human reality; it’s like perversity of psychology becomes totally transparent.
God, look and they ask for the head of John the Baptist in a different language; they must be called Matilda and have powers of telekinesis and talk to animals like Liza Doolittle I’ve never been motioned by so many noisy mutes to chaste them like they need nutting.
Well that was quite something. Very interesting. The dancing and the veils were rather notably by their absence. But it was pretty amusing none the less.
She looks like a 6 year old pretending to dance. And then all the others reacting like what she was doing was all that sexy. Kissing the head under the robe, however, was pretty kinky.
The 1960s were inspired by the 1920s, fashion and culture. The historical pendulum swings between Apollo and Dionysis, classic and roccocco, conservation and experimentation. Humans are a lot of fun!
Maravilhoso assistir a essa película restaurada do Cinema mudo de 1923. Salomé, ato II, uma obra-prima de R. Strauss e grande elenco de atores. Parabéns ao canal.
Образы столетней давности нисколько не потеряли актуальности и выразительности, Саломея - крошечная принцесса- с бубенчиками в волосах - режиссёр просто гений! А Ирод?! Ещё чуть-чуть и у него слюнки побегут от вожделения!
Thank you for your insightful comments. Art Deco everywhere And the scenes being shown. Nazimova, and Isadora Duncan championed modern dance a century ago. It may look a bit clunky to us now but it was true heartfelt emotion back then.
Everybody criticizing Nazimova's dancing, maybe you'd like Ludmilla Tcherina's dancing better: ruclips.net/video/l0K8OmU0ZIA/видео.htmlsi=0EnjQQNrdlg8qdog The full-length Salomé (1969) is here: ruclips.net/video/Pd_61QMZrEM/видео.htmlsi=Xjy9BIfDPM2xLo1O Ludmilla Tcherina was 45 years old when she portrayed Salomé, a year older than Nazimova. Tcherina could both act and dance. I remenber seeing this film as a child on PBS and never forgot it.
@@lesleyearltempletonSo glad you enjoyed it. I have uploaded the complete dance and other scenes featuring the beautiful and talented Ludmilla Tchérina here: ruclips.net/video/HDJiXxM2UvY/видео.htmlsi=9Z19imJa3dh4PwYX
Thank you for sharing. Excellent production. I just recently read Oscar Wilde's Salome. It is engrossing, so unlike his other plays. Please read it. You will appreciate his insights.
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. The version shown here was restored by The Library of Congress and Lobster Films from a nitrate print preserved by Film Preservation Associates Inc. As you can see by comparison in the following review video, they cleaned up the print very nicely: ruclips.net/video/25yrlaqVa20/видео.htmlsi=6rSHGHFJ_5Fsu7b1 I added the music by Richard Strauss for RUclips.
There is a remastered DVD version or the high-definition Blu-ray Disc version from Kino International. However, the Richard Stauss soundtrack I added myself for RUclips. The various editions are reviewed here: silentera.com/video/hardLuckHV.html
@@dadautubeI'm sorry I sent you a link for the Buster Keaton dvd/Blu-ray by mistake! There is no Blu-ray for Nazimova's Salomé, but one may be in the works: www.blu-ray.com/movies/Salome-Blu-ray/354799/ The version shown here was restored by The Library of Congress and Lobster Films from a nitrate print preserved by Film Preservation Associates Inc. As you can see by comparison in the following review video, they cleaned up the print very nicely: ruclips.net/video/25yrlaqVa20/видео.htmlsi=6rSHGHFJ_5Fsu7b1
@@GildaTabarez thanks for the kind reply ... yes, you sent the wrong link ... but i did search around and found the movie's full version on at least four different RUclips channels ... some have different musics ... one was fully silent ... and one does have some interesting music that doesn't sound bad ... (see below please ...) only one of them happens to have a slightly better image quality than the rest ... i also found another not-too-bad copy on a Russian website, with a nice music on the footage, probably created originally for this movie but in later (more recent) times ... the problem with many of the ancient movies is that their original negatives are either totally lost, or worse, they are in an unusable condition ... (some producers either discarded everything to do with those movies that didn't sell well, or simply extracted the silver from them to sell the material in the market even if the movie did sell well in the first place but declined in attracting more viewers later ...) 😞 so, what's left of many of those great movies are some badly damaged often broken in parts positive copies attheir best ... it is possible however, to retrieve some usable images out of those bad copies ... but in the end, it never matches the original, unfortunately! and the lost footage are never to be found anyways ... ironically, Nazimova herself regretted acting and/or making ALL of her movies and wished she could burn "every inch" of them! could she have been the one responsible for the missing footage of some of his works? (she produced and co-directed Salome` for example ...)
According to several sources, the Hays Code was not applied to any films until 1934. Hays and his associates did start getting together in 1922 but they did not complete their rules and get cooperation for enforcement until 1934. If anyone restricted dance movements in this movie, it wasn't due to Hays.
You are correct, but my point was that the Hays Code was created at this time due to the prevailing moral climate of that era. The play was banned in Britain. Approval was withheld because of a rule prohibiting the depiction of biblical characters on stage. The ban on public performance of Salome in England was not lifted until 1931. In my opinion, even the famous dance of Robot Maria in Metropolis (1927) was quite restrained even though Germany was not as prudish in the 1920s as America. I think just common decency stopped film actresses from twerking and writhing around the way we're used to seeing today. Can you give me an example of a truly sexy dance performance in a silent film by today's standards?
I just thought of a silent film with a beautiful, sensual dance -- Anna May Wong in Piccadilly (1929), but there was little to no chance she would be cast in the title role of a film about Salome. There were lots of restrictions back then.
@@GildaTabarez The movies and the morals of the 1920's in the United States were not yet ruled by the Hays Code of 1934. Movie moguls were busy producing movies that made lots of money and they weren't really interested in killing their cash cows. The era of the 1920's was often called the "Roaring 20's" and featured shorter skirts and rouged knees for the ladies and the wild dances of the Charleston and the Black Bottom. Here are some entertainments of the 10's and 20's that I believe contain dances/movements that weren't stiff or jerky: * Afternoon of a Fawn performed by the great Nijinski (movie short of the ballet) * The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse silent with a tango performed by Valentino. * The Sheik with dance movements by Valentino (American women went wild for anything Rudy did) * Broadway theatre dance pieces performed by the Ziegfeld Girls * Vaudeville and burlesque performers such as Sally Rand and her Fan Dance
@@marthawelch4289 Well, there would be no silent film about Oscar Wilde's Salomé without Nazimova. Is there a Ziegfeld girl or a fan dancer who could act as well as she did? Even if there were, no one else was going to make such a film. She deserves some credit for making one of the first art films, which is a lot different from vaudeville, burlesque or popular dances of the time. Males didn't dance in a suggestive manner until Elvis Presley, except for Nijinsky as the Faun, but it caused a huge scandal.
Having watched "Thor: Love and Thunder" 2022 last night, and this treasure "Salome, Nazimova" 1922 this afternoon, I am taken by how far our storytelling has come in a century ... not a jot.
I saw this when I was verry young and it staid with me the way Telly Tubbies does with toddlers today. She seemed to glow and all the odd characters where small like me .(At the time) Until YT I would never have had any idear what it was ,it was just, almost an image.
Прекрасная игра артистов 😂😂😂 Но это всё равно очень трогательно и наивно 😢😢😢 Браво людям подарившим Нам в 21 веке такие прекрасные фильмы об искусстве 19- 20 веков - ведь эти артисты жили в парадигме 19 века .❤❤❤
If I recall my reading of the play correctly, Salome is killed not not spears but by being crushed by the shields of her fathers guards. Herod looks appropriately drunk in much of this production
You are correct about the shields. Death by spears was more visually elegant. "Nazimova and Rambova set out to elevate the movies by creating a Gesamtkunstwerk, a 'total work of art,' uniting design, staging, and gesture to achieve a kind of silent ballet... It was left to the visuals and acting to convey the story..." -- Catherine A. Surowiec silentfilm.org/salome/
My uncle was a year old, dad was born in ‘27 the year of talkies and mom wouldn’t be born until ‘31. My paternal grandfather was 22 my maternal grandmother was 18 and my maternal grandfather was 22 hen this film was made.
Salome's his step-niece. Yeah, he's getting just a bit too carried away here. This version is interesting, but you have to see The Dance of the Seven Veils in a great performance of Strauss' actual opera with a real professional ballet dancer. This performance is quite lackluster - for me anyway.
Judith Anderson played the mother in - can’t remember the date ,but some years ago. And Judith Anderson was pure evil no one can play the part like her - Rest In Peace Judith
This is what Wagner meant when he called opera "total art", wiith a combination of drama, music and art, but this adds cinema, too, and I like it much better than anything Wagner ever did.
It was mostly tasteful nudity and not that common. The Twenties may have been "roaring" -- yet Prohibition lasted from 1920 until 1933. The moral majority was a force to be reckoned with back then. "During the 1920s, pressure to censor the movies grew. In 1922 alone, 22 state legislatures considered bills to impose state and local censorship." -- www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/historyonline/film_censorship.cfm "Film censorship in the United States was a frequent feature of the industry almost from the beginning of the U.S. motion picture industry until the end of strong self-regulation in 1966." -- Wikipedia "The “Pre-Code” Era was a short time, roughly 1931 to 1934, when American movies were at their most raucous and racy, a time when illicit sex and violence were common themes." -- Marian Luntz
Pretty outrageous stuff for the times. I wonder what people thought when they first saw this over 100 years ago...some of her looks would make a comeback in the punk/new wave era of the 80's.
Yes it did the black eyeliner, fuzzy bleached hair dark lips
Nothing new I suppose.
It bombed. Now it's a cult film
Interesting set and costumes. I won't watch it a second time.
right?! isn't that Debbie Harry? ;)
Pensei exatamentew a mesma coisa! Um escandalo para a época.
you're right of course ... but the fashionistas of the Roaring `20s were quite punkish and outrageous in most of their styles back in the day ... just check out other movies and photos of the era and you'll surely agree with me ... some skirts were almost mini-jupe in some instances ... 🙂 if you watch Fritz Lang's masterpiece, Metropolis, made in the same era only a few years later, you'd see similar traits, and some full nude performances ... there were actual sexual intercourse scenes in some Hollywood movies of the pre-code era too! Hedy Lamarr acted in one such 'naughty' scene for example ...
PROBABLY THE EPITOME OF AN EARLY MASTERWORK OF THE XX CENTURY DIFFICULT TO LABEL WITH SUCH FORMIDABLE ASSEMBLAGE OF TALENT FROM DIFFERENT FINE ARTS: THE OSCAR WILDE POEM, THE STRAUSS MUSIC, THE CINEMATOGRAPHY, THE ACTING AND DANCING OF THE TROUPE, THE STAGING, THE COSTUMES, ETC. ETC. …. AND THE MAGIC OF YOU TUBE. THANK YOU GILDA FOR SUCH A MARVELOUS GIFT.
Thank you so much! I'm very happy you enjoyed it.
Why are you screaming???
@@philipb2134 they're so wicked smaaaaaaht!
I find it difficult to read all capital letters when it should be properly written. Pathologists refer to this as early dialectic confusion. It is like impaired vision but on a pathological level.
Was this comment complementary? … it seemed like a major piece of film. Anybody agree?
@@robkunkel8833I had never heard of your condition but a quick search revealed to me that it does indeed exist. I used an app called Case Converter for Android to quickly convert the complimentary comment for you:
"Probably the epitome of an early masterwork of the XX century difficult to label with such formidable assemblage of talent from different fine arts: the Oscar Wilde poem, the Strauss music, the cinematography, the acting and dancing of the troupe, the staging, the costumes, etc. etc. and the magic of RUclips. Thank you, Gilda, for such a marvelous gift."
Please note that this video consists only of selected scenes. There are several complete versions of the film on RUclips with different music. For the sake of comparison, I have also uploaded select scenes from "Salomé" (1969),
a French film starring prima ballerina and actress, Ludmilla Tchérina.
Thank you for allowing me to see what people wouĺd have seen 100 years ago!
As a passionate admirer of Alla Nazimova’s nephew Val Lewton since my teens (I’m 63) I’ve read about her many times, but until now had only seen her in stills. Thank you for a fascinating gift!
Thank you so much!
Nazimova had quite broad shoulders…she looks rather mascoline
Nazimova designed these fabulous costumes !
@@4lydia Wow! Val Lewton certainly grew up with an artistically talented family.
Marvellous to see this so well preserved - a cultural gem
Wow. The art imagery. Every shot is a treasure.
So evocative of Beardsley I kept taking screenshots.
This film shows John the Baptist is as obsessed with Salome as she is with him. Locked together in a Dance of Death. I haven't seen this in a long time. Thanks for the good quality video!
There is a kind of passionate love that supersedes everything reasonable.
@@sheebafan13 It's not love - it's unbridled eroticism.
Her dancing was so avante garde. And that hair! A real trend setter!
昔，ヌレエフ主演の映画「バレンチノ」にアラ・ナジモワとその恋人の女性も描かれていて，この動画のヘアスタイルにしたナジモワ役の女優がルドルフ・バレンチノの葬儀にすごい衣装でやってきて棺に泣き伏すというポーズで新聞の一面を飾るという写真が激写されていました。
なかなか芸術的な作品でじっと見入ってしまいます。
衣装や構図が凝っていて楽しいです。
Yes, a classic! The music by Strauss, though augmented to fit the image, is ideal! Truly a beautiful presentation!
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for confirming Strauss is in there somewhere. It's changed enough that I really wasn't sure. Thought the score might just be making occasional allusions to the opera.
@@dontaylor7315As stated in the video description, two versions of The Dance of the Seven Veils by Richard Strauss are played in their entirety with oboe and flute solo excerpts in the middle. There is no other music in the soundtrack aside from Strauss.
@@GildaTabarez Thank you. Clearly I should have read the description.
Did you know that she pattern the outfits and set from the influence of AUBREY BEARDSLEY? She always fascinated me. I just adore the silent films of yesterday.
He,
Aubrey is a man, and the channel did know that it's literally in the opening credits
Magnificent! It must have been scandalous back in the day. They could only get away with it, if it was a biblical narrative. Beautifully edited! Thank you!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
My grandmother, who was born in 1919, told me that her relatives didn't go to silent movies in her day because they were so indecent.
Wow ! Fantastic ! Poses must have influenced all those 1930s bronzes and figurines you see. Always loved Aubrey Beardsley drawings ❤
This is a jewel. The fact that my older grandfather was 3 years old when this movie was made... well, is just unbelievable and moving. My other three grandparents they didn't even exist then. Wow.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Capolavoro,con gli abiti e scenografie disegnate da A.Breadsley,amico di Wilde e grande illustratore.
E si riconosce il suo tocco,la modernità e la bellezza.
Grandi musiche di Richard Strauss. 👏❤️
If I'm reading this correctly, and going by the film cues, during Salome's dance at first, she's getting some people hot and bothered. One of them seeming to be another woman, and a guy who gets weirdly touchy with another guy. That's kind of surprising, if the not too subtle implications are what I'm seeing here. There's a lot to take in here, it's wonderful you've given us the chance to see this today. What a joy it must be to make art like this that lives on so strongly.
@@Gruesome420 So glad you enjoyed it. Nazimova was bisexual and openly conducted relationships with women while being married to a man. “Salomé” is considered the first mainstream art movie and has long been rumored to have an all-queer cast. The script was written by the famous gay author, Oscar Wilde. Tony Bravo of the SF Chronicle called it "a queer fever dream."
Considered it's 1922 this is pre hayes code/ heavy censorship era, movies with queer, violent or sexual subtexts and open themes were more common
Crazy! Love the guys in the band!
One can only imagine what this was like live, the colors, and the sound.
I agree. Someone has to upscale and colorize this original bw film.
New Subscriber! You caught me Gilda with this haunting film. Having been a ballet dancer I heard about the "Seven Veils" numerous times but it evaded me. Now nearly 75, it unleashed its magic thanks to you! I'm ever so grateful with love..💌
@@CrosbieLane Thank you for your very kind comment!
It's a pleasure and honor to hear from you. 💗
@@GildaTabarez Tis my honor having found you!🥰
Like @GrantTarradeus, I came to this via my admiration for Val Lewton, Nazimova's nephew (he grew up in her house from the age of 5, his father having squandered the family's wealth gambling). But I also adore Richard Strauss, Oscar Wilde, the Decadent movement, and Salome's legacy as an inspiration to the early modernists. Wow. Now I must add Alla Nazimova to the pantheon. She was the catalyst for this amazing production. Her capitalization on the story's inherent critique of the male gaze in cinema is nothing short of astonishing. Thank you for sharing it!
Thank you for your very interesting comment! I'm glad that you appreciate Nazimova's contribution to the art of cinema.
A marvelous piece of film preservation snd a superb example of a classic silent art piece but I must say one of the least sexy Dance of the Seven Vails I’ve ever seen ! Sorry but nothing to give up much of anything for ! But the set designs are great !
Some people have been criticizing Nazimova's dance as stiff, corny, boring, ungraceful, etc. I think she danced pretty well for not being a dancer by profession.
Not all dancers can act or direct as well as Alla Nazimova did. We can't have everything. Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography was also considered modern and anti-balletic. They were breaking new ground back then.
Which dancer or actress of that time would you have cast in the part of Salomé? Martha Graham, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Theda Bara, Pola Negri, Vilma Banky, Louise Brooks? Do you think they would have acted as well as Nazimova? She was one of the most brilliant theater actresses of her era.
Artists weren't allowed to act or dance in an overtly sensual manner in the early 1920s. The Hays Office was first established in 1922.
Perhaps that's why the story of Salomé wasn't filmed more often. The only other silent film about Salomé based on Oscar Wilde's play that I could find was "A Modern Salome"
(1920) starring Hope Hampton. Unfortunately, it is a lost film.
She’s fantastic actress and the entire production is impressive . But her dance abilities were very limited. Worst bourees ever but it’s amazing for the time and very enjoyable.
I was just thinking that even I could improvise a dance of this quality, and I can't dance to save my life. 😂 And Herod's overreaction when she hasn't even started moving yet is just hysterical. It's an interesting artifact of early film, for sure!
@@fugithegreat Your saying you could dance better is an overreaction.
Maybe she expected Johan Strauss. Way more danceable.
Thrilled to see this again. ‘Hi it’s Me. I’m the Film Geek, it’s Me’.
today is June 24...the Feast of John the Baptist...and they are featuring this. whoah.
@@michaelmiller2397 This video was uploaded a month ago. The complete film and excerpts have been available on RUclips for years. No disrespect is intended towards the cousin of Jesus. Happy Saint John the Baptist Day!
First time I've seen this. Thanks for posting.
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!
When The Huntington Hartford Museum at 2 Columbus Circle (now something else) inaugurated it's film program in the late 1960s, the first film shown was Salome starring Nazimova. The guest for the day was Oscar Wilde's (now elderly) youngest son! His name was now Vyvyan Holland and he was the author of cook books.
Lordy! She was 43 when this was filmed!
She looks 12!
@@marylou3995who, mamehah? Wasn’t all of these prose insertions then?
Hold on, it has to be two comments, the imaginary script and imaginary director said so.
But the previous David lynch vintage interview and the tiery muggler ‘95 fashion show dropped into the feed by puppet strings, says nobody visited the baby in laindon or Basildon, or Melbourne. Should there be a new twined with sign going up erasing the old twinned with Beirut one? I will just read through this old winnifred Aldrich pattern cutting book again and see what their suggestions were and who too. Oh it doesn’t say who too; maybe wind in the willows also inspired the house of Fred & rose west; who on earth could have possibly made that much disturbance for a sense of hierarchical power & prestige.
You know, there’s something cacophonously peaceful about acknowledging reality and all human reality; it’s like perversity of psychology becomes totally transparent.
God, look and they ask for the head of John the Baptist in a different language; they must be called Matilda and have powers of telekinesis and talk to animals like Liza Doolittle
I’ve never been motioned by so many noisy mutes to chaste them like they need nutting.
Amazing piece of restoration of a silent film So clear and great set designs
WOW--they nailed it 1922--and labor of love to synch a good clear strauss audio with it--thank you so much, gilda
Well that was quite something.
Very interesting. The dancing and the veils were rather notably by their absence.
But it was pretty amusing none the less.
She looks like a 6 year old pretending to dance. And then all the others reacting like what she was doing was all that sexy. Kissing the head under the robe, however, was pretty kinky.
Fantastic. Fabulous acting, sets, filming. That titan Strauss's music is perfect. Wow.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!
Herod's wife looked like she stumbled in from a hippie enclave.
This production was way ahead of its time.
Her outfit is great! You really see the Aubrey Beardsley influence.
The 1960s were inspired by the 1920s, fashion and culture. The historical pendulum swings between Apollo and Dionysis, classic and roccocco, conservation and experimentation. Humans are a lot of fun!
She was quite a looker, @thurayya8905.
I was thinking the sand thing !
Thank You so much for the upload. When Art meant a sublime detailed research moved by an utter Passion. With my all admiration and regards.
Thank you so much! I'm very glad you enjoyed it.
The music of Strauss!
That was mesmerizing,!! Thank you!
Thank you too! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
Maravilhoso assistir a essa película restaurada do Cinema mudo de 1923. Salomé, ato II, uma obra-prima de R. Strauss e grande elenco de atores. Parabéns ao canal.
Muito obrigado! Estou tão feliz que você tenha gostado.
This stuff is brilliant! The acting is marvelous
What a strange thing in such a time.
It is wonderful ! so intense , expressive , great creativity ! Beautiful ❤❤❤
I read Wilde's play. Interesting seeing it in a live-action film.
What a gift it was to watch.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Образы столетней давности нисколько не потеряли актуальности и выразительности, Саломея - крошечная принцесса- с бубенчиками в волосах - режиссёр просто гений! А Ирод?! Ещё чуть-чуть и у него слюнки побегут от вожделения!
É de uma vanguarda difícil de se imaginar para a época. E para hoje, também! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you for your insightful comments. Art Deco everywhere And the scenes being shown. Nazimova, and Isadora Duncan championed modern dance a century ago.
It may look a bit clunky to us now but it was true heartfelt emotion back then.
Everybody criticizing Nazimova's dancing, maybe you'd like Ludmilla Tcherina's dancing better:
ruclips.net/video/l0K8OmU0ZIA/видео.htmlsi=0EnjQQNrdlg8qdog
The full-length Salomé (1969) is here:
ruclips.net/video/Pd_61QMZrEM/видео.htmlsi=Xjy9BIfDPM2xLo1O
Ludmilla Tcherina was 45 years old when she portrayed Salomé, a year older than Nazimova. Tcherina could both act and dance. I remenber seeing this film as a child on PBS and never forgot it.
Oh my word - I just watched the clip you recommended- incredible incredible !
@@lesleyearltempletonSo glad you enjoyed it. I have uploaded the complete dance and other scenes featuring the beautiful and talented Ludmilla Tchérina here:
ruclips.net/video/HDJiXxM2UvY/видео.htmlsi=9Z19imJa3dh4PwYX
Thank you for sharing. Excellent production. I just recently read Oscar Wilde's Salome. It is engrossing, so unlike his other plays. Please read it. You will appreciate his insights.
A great film footage!
Great to see this. Wonderfully atmospheric. Not too sure about the dancing though.
What a revelation! I just wish the print was as clear as the music. Thank you for sharing, Gilda!
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. The version shown here was restored by The Library of Congress and Lobster Films from a nitrate print preserved by Film Preservation Associates Inc. As you can see by comparison in the following review video, they cleaned up the print very nicely:
ruclips.net/video/25yrlaqVa20/видео.htmlsi=6rSHGHFJ_5Fsu7b1
I added the music by Richard Strauss for RUclips.
Amazing! Beautiful, thank you so very much.
Thank you too! I'm delighted that you enjoyed it.
Amazing, luminous performance.
Дивно је видети ове старе снимке као сведочанство времена.
Interesting. Very different from the 1953 version starring Rita Hayworth.
An absolutely beautiful masterpiece ❤
Excellent, as always, Gilda.
Thank you so much, Linda!
Fascinante representación! Gracias...
Gracias por comentar.
a little masterpiece of a great classical work : the set, the costumes, the music, performance, everything! pity the copy is so low quality ... 😞
There is a remastered DVD version or the high-definition Blu-ray Disc version from Kino International. However, the Richard Stauss soundtrack I added myself for RUclips. The various editions are reviewed here:
silentera.com/video/hardLuckHV.html
@@GildaTabarez thank you for the clarifying reply ... will check the link ...
@@dadautubeI'm sorry I sent you a link for the Buster Keaton dvd/Blu-ray by mistake! There is no Blu-ray for Nazimova's Salomé, but one may be in the works:
www.blu-ray.com/movies/Salome-Blu-ray/354799/
The version shown here was restored by The Library of Congress and Lobster Films from a nitrate print preserved by Film Preservation Associates Inc. As you can see by comparison in the following review video, they cleaned up the print very nicely:
ruclips.net/video/25yrlaqVa20/видео.htmlsi=6rSHGHFJ_5Fsu7b1
@@GildaTabarez thanks for the kind reply ... yes, you sent the wrong link ... but i did search around and found the movie's full version on at least four different RUclips channels ... some have different musics ... one was fully silent ... and one does have some interesting music that doesn't sound bad ... (see below please ...)
only one of them happens to have a slightly better image quality than the rest ... i also found another not-too-bad copy on a Russian website, with a nice music on the footage, probably created originally for this movie but in later (more recent) times ...
the problem with many of the ancient movies is that their original negatives are either totally lost, or worse, they are in an unusable condition ... (some producers either discarded everything to do with those movies that didn't sell well, or simply extracted the silver from them to sell the material in the market even if the movie did sell well in the first place but declined in attracting more viewers later ...) 😞
so, what's left of many of those great movies are some badly damaged often broken in parts positive copies attheir best ... it is possible however, to retrieve some usable images out of those bad copies ... but in the end, it never matches the original, unfortunately! and the lost footage are never to be found anyways ...
ironically, Nazimova herself regretted acting and/or making ALL of her movies and wished she could burn "every inch" of them! could she have been the one responsible for the missing footage of some of his works? (she produced and co-directed Salome` for example ...)
Marvellous !
Thanks for sharing
This is a trippy film.
Well, That was... interesting.
Thank you!
Beautiful. ❤
This is so interesting, thank you
Bravo 🎉
Wonderful ! Amazing !
Time travelling is my favourite state of mind.
The mind boggled -- but i could not look away.
According to several sources, the Hays Code was not applied to any films until 1934. Hays and his associates did start getting together in 1922 but they did not complete their rules and get cooperation for enforcement until 1934.
If anyone restricted dance movements in this movie, it wasn't due to Hays.
You are correct, but my point was that the Hays Code was created at this time due to the prevailing moral climate of that era. The play was banned in Britain. Approval was withheld because of a rule prohibiting the depiction of biblical characters on stage. The ban on public performance of Salome in England was not lifted until 1931.
In my opinion, even the famous dance of Robot Maria in Metropolis (1927) was quite restrained even though Germany was not as prudish in the 1920s as America. I think just common decency stopped film actresses from twerking and writhing around the way we're used to seeing today.
Can you give me an example of a truly sexy dance performance in a silent film by today's standards?
I just thought of a silent film with a beautiful, sensual dance -- Anna May Wong in Piccadilly (1929), but there was little to no chance she would be cast in the title role of a film about Salome. There were lots of restrictions back then.
@@GildaTabarez The movies and the morals of the 1920's in the United States were not yet ruled by the Hays Code of 1934. Movie moguls were busy producing movies that made lots of money and they weren't really interested in killing their cash cows. The era of the 1920's was often called the "Roaring 20's" and featured shorter skirts and rouged knees for the ladies and the wild dances of the Charleston and the Black Bottom.
Here are some entertainments of the 10's and 20's that I believe contain dances/movements that weren't stiff or jerky:
* Afternoon of a Fawn performed by the great Nijinski (movie short of the ballet)
* The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse silent with a tango performed by Valentino.
* The Sheik with dance movements by Valentino (American women went wild for anything Rudy did)
* Broadway theatre dance pieces performed by the Ziegfeld Girls
* Vaudeville and burlesque performers such as Sally Rand and her Fan Dance
@@marthawelch4289 Well, there would be no silent film about Oscar Wilde's Salomé without Nazimova. Is there a Ziegfeld girl or a fan dancer who could act as well as she did? Even if there were, no one else was going to make such a film.
She deserves some credit for making one of the first art films, which is a lot different from vaudeville, burlesque or popular dances of the time.
Males didn't dance in a suggestive manner until Elvis Presley, except for Nijinsky as the Faun, but it caused a huge scandal.
This is the strangest thing.
This is just how I pictured it.
Having watched "Thor: Love and Thunder" 2022 last night, and this treasure "Salome, Nazimova" 1922 this afternoon, I am taken by how far our storytelling has come in a century ... not a jot.
This is precious! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it.
Epic!
One hundred and two years old.
Nazimova was said to have violet colored eyes similar to Elizabeth Taylor.
I saw this when I was verry young and it staid with me the way Telly Tubbies does with toddlers today. She seemed to glow and all the odd characters where small like me .(At the time)
Until YT I would never have had any idear what it was ,it was just, almost an image.
Oooooooh. scarey!
But so fascinating. Thanks!
Count Floyd, what are you doing here? Awoooooo! 😄
Depiction of a 🎬 scene that is not so easy to portray!
Wonderful, lovely, true art! Great in every respect! ❤
Era el cine maravilloso, y eso que eran loc comienzos es insuperable actuaciones
Прекрасная игра артистов 😂😂😂 Но это всё равно очень трогательно и наивно 😢😢😢 Браво людям подарившим Нам в 21 веке такие прекрасные фильмы об искусстве 19- 20 веков - ведь эти артисты жили в парадигме 19 века .❤❤❤
ありがとうございます。
Thank you for this version with the Strauss music; I found the synthesizer soundtrack on another version rather annoying, it put me off watching.
@@art2liv4 Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
If I recall my reading of the play correctly, Salome is killed not not spears but by being crushed by the shields of her fathers guards. Herod looks appropriately drunk in much of this production
You are correct about the shields. Death by spears was more visually elegant.
"Nazimova and Rambova set out to elevate the movies by creating a Gesamtkunstwerk, a 'total work of art,' uniting design, staging, and gesture to achieve a kind of silent ballet... It was left to the visuals and acting to convey the story..." -- Catherine A. Surowiec
silentfilm.org/salome/
The last time she did the dance of the seven veils, six of her veils were in the laundry so it was a fast dance.
Thanx for unveiling the truth! 😄
😂😂
Thanks.
What a stir this must have caused when first relaesed.
Chilling.
Mental! Love it!
A very early Fellini film.
Wow! Thank you!
Original footage from 31 AD.
My uncle was a year old, dad was born in ‘27 the year of talkies and mom wouldn’t be born until ‘31. My paternal grandfather was 22 my maternal grandmother was 18 and my maternal grandfather was 22 hen this film was made.
Dad's a little too excited if you know what I mean.
Not a lot happens around there. Plus he does not get out much.
Yes, he is, I agree with you
He told his concubine that she reminded him of his daughter.
Salome's his step-niece. Yeah, he's getting just a bit too carried away here. This version is interesting, but you have to see The Dance of the Seven Veils in a great performance of Strauss' actual opera with a real professional ballet dancer. This performance is quite lackluster - for me anyway.
😅 He was one of Trump's ancient ancestors! @@gbeachy2010
...silvery shadows on a screen accompanied by music and sentiments expressed by emotion filled face and body movements...
The midget musicians with the crazy hats are amazing
Judith Anderson played the mother in - can’t remember the date ,but some years ago. And Judith Anderson was pure evil no one can play the part like her - Rest In Peace Judith
Yes, she was excellent as Herodias in Salome (1953).
Cool ♥️🌹
This is what Wagner meant when he called opera "total art", wiith a combination of drama, music and art, but this adds cinema, too, and I like it much better than anything Wagner ever did.
A classic. n
They had no censhorip in the 20s and many actresses beared all never had bras and see through clothes
It was mostly tasteful nudity and not that common. The Twenties may have been "roaring" -- yet Prohibition lasted from 1920 until 1933. The moral majority was a force to be reckoned with back then. "During the 1920s, pressure to censor the movies grew. In 1922 alone, 22 state legislatures considered bills to impose state and local censorship." -- www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/historyonline/film_censorship.cfm
"Film censorship in the United States was a frequent feature of the industry almost from the beginning of the U.S. motion picture industry until the end of strong self-regulation in 1966." -- Wikipedia
"The “Pre-Code” Era was a short time, roughly 1931 to 1934, when American movies were at their most raucous and racy, a time when illicit sex and violence were common themes." -- Marian Luntz