Would you be so kind as to add to the beginning text (following your words, "Silent Italian epic which introduced...") : a credit for Jacques Gauthier, the pianist playing the incredible accompaniment "based on the original score"? This phenomenal contribution to the production deserves mention from the start. Gauthier's awesome "one-man" performance enhances the film experience 1,000 percent. (- Comment from an appreciative amateur pianist.)
Yeah .. Hollywood does this in secrecy .. get a grip not about being more advanced .. it’s about people being asleep / non conscious of the situation at hand.
This is incredible visual art. Pause it almost anywhere & you'll have the composition of a gorgeous Pre-Raphaelite painting. Silent films like this should be studied in Art History classes by art & illustration students. Basically it's a moving painting. So beautiful.
When you're young, 'five or ten years ago' seems like a different era but when you reach your fifties those times suddenly becomes '30 years old', '35 years old', '40 years old' etc. And they happen to be things that have stayed of interest to the mainstream media ie. the 70s and 80s so they seem even MORE like yesterday because they never seem to get left behind. So....100 years....yeah I CAN believe it, it's a vast amount of time when you're young but not that long ago when you get older!
I watched 'Cabiria' on PBS in the United States before I could read the subtitles (1970's). I had no idea what it was or where it came from. On a lark, I typed "silent movie" with "Romans", that ends with a "flooded tunnel". And, here it is. Wow. Thank you.
A marvelous offering. An ancient film about ancient times - almost felt like I was watching a newsreel of the Punic Wars. Tossing small children into the flames was almost a show-stopper, but it is depicted at a distance in order to tone down the effect. Italy's interest in North Africa is certainly evident based on the film's subject matter. Of note are the many people of color acting in the film - some as extras but others as major characters. Many are servants, but they are shown as human beings - in contrast to Griffith's Birth of a Nation. Maciste stands out in the heroic mode, with a strongman's build without looking pumped up. At times, there appear to be jumps in the film that might mean a lost section, but one can follow the storyline. Good stuff.
Look up Ruthie Tompson. She was 4 years old when this was made and she went on to work on many Hollywood productions like Snow White. She retired in 1975 at the age of 65 TWO YEARS before Star Wars was even released and SHE IS STILL ALIVE as of typing this comment (04.11.21) Sometimes time just blows my mind.
This film, made in 1914, makes us vibrate with emotion although it does not have the characteristics of the films we see in 2020. It transmits emotion and reminds us of those disastrous days where human beings were sold as slaves. It's a great movie.
Twenty minutes in and I conclude, life was terrible for common people in ancient times. You could die any day, at any moment, you could lose everything and nobody would help you -you were on your own.
Thanks for sharing this cult movie. I ignored that it was so innovative, even Lang and others great film makers got inspired by the Pastrone's masterpiece Grazie. Ciao
First Italian silent kolossal movie. 3:20 in fact the Decadent Aesthtetic style of Gabriele D'Annunzio remains among the major sources of inspiration for Italian cinema at its inception
could you imagine living back then ,, when you see your friends you say cannot wait for the sacrifice tonight , lets party , my god the smell of burning bodies must have been horrific ,,,, insanity ,,,,,,,,
The length I've seen listed is 181 minutes. In any case, this is just another unfortunate instance of a long silent film being cropped down for audiences in other countries.
Extraordinary camera work for 1914. The title role isn't much of a part, but the evil, passionate, sexy queen is something else, complete with over the top death scene. Likewise the somewhat homely Roman guy; Maciste is the real hero. Great film. The story doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but the original reportedly was an hour longer.
It is a strange film this. First half is alot better & more like a epic adventure, but second half gets dragged down to soap opera level. Main cause of this is the Queen, who starts of a nice character, saving the girl, but seems to have a personality bypass as film goes on, & goes on a power trip. Excellent for 1914 though, with the scene where they sacrifice little children very creepy.
When you're faced with life's tough choices and you don't know where to turn or what do do, you could always stop and ask yourself, "What would Moloch do?"
Can someone PLEASE tell me why no one uploads the film with the soundtrack in its original orchestral form? Not that the piano isn't great, but I want to see it with the original full orchestra!
dorkandproudofit In this particular case, I simply uploaded the copy I had. The music, introductory text, and everything else is just what was there on my copy of the film.
thank you very much Volvandese for this epic upload, maybe you can reload it with a better quality? i know 360p was good 4 years ago, but now youtube supports HD, it should be wonderful. bye
Moral of the story. DON'T BUILD YOUR HOUSE NEAR A VOLCANO. Trivia: They called the god of the sacrificed ankle biters Ba'al Hammon in Carthage. Tanit is his consort. This is a pretty trippy faery tale. Nice.
Il regista è stato Giovanni Pastrone, D'Annunzio ha scritto le didascalie, ma gli è stata attribuita la paternità dell'opera a scopo pubblicitario, in questo modo si dava una legittimità artistica all'opera
It wasn't "Italia Films" -- the name of the company was "Itala." It's a pity Kino couldn't have done a chamber-ensemble version of the original score, which was written by Pizetti, a close friend of the writer D'Annunzio.
This is great. A relic, a melodrama. Only Pastrone didn't use any macro or closeup shots. It's just... I don't know if this is the full version (at 150 mins). The Kino version is the one I plan to get anyway, so it's good that you noted that as well. But from what I've seen from the lava inherent, the Cabiria story to the alps and onward. All riveting. A time glass at the time and a multifaceted time glass today. Do you happen to have Quo Vadis (1913)? Is that possible to upload?
This whole movie is built to be as epic as possible and there are several scenes that are just so damn amazing for it's time (it's hard to believe that this was made in 1915 and not 1950, fr) but 1:25:00 strikes me as the absolute best shot in the whole movie
Can someone timestamp me to where this scene occurs: Cabiria (1914). This Italian silent epic film features a brief scene of Archimedes using his mirrors to set fire to Roman ships during the siege of Syracuse. Thanks!
1:57:20 all I could think of was; Smells like teen spirit ... Load up on guns, bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend She's over-bored and self-assured Oh no, I know a dirty word Hello, hello, hello, how low Hello, hello, hello, how low Hello, hello, hello, how low Hello, hello, hello
No one has enough time to care about anything today. So we are Here, A Keanu Reaves video of him messing up a Hollywood concrete signing in front of the TCL theatre, a wiki search on moloch and then this 2:00 hour silent film later. All Hail Satan LOL LULZ Classic EPIC! I kinda liked it.
If this is the kind of music that was drummed into people every day in 1914, then I fully understand that the great war has broken out. This is so depressing and, on every level, a degradation to the creation of life.
John Browne A large number of silent movies exist in several different edited forms, so it's common to find the same film at different lengths with certain scenes added or omitted depending on where the print in use was originally screened. Or it may just be that there's a little more material added to their version in terms of introduction or credits.
I did enjoy this movie, but it’s also uncomfortably nationalistic. The portrayal of saintly Romans versus evil Carthaginians was, of course, nothing new in 1914, but the dichotomy is made more uncomfortable when you know that Mussolini is less than a decade away.
Yes, there are two movies I'd like to see. There are clips of both, but I would like to see them in their entirety. They are "Miracle in Milan" (English translation if possible) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (version with Micky Rooney and James Cagney).
Would you be so kind as to add to the beginning text (following your words, "Silent Italian epic which introduced...") : a credit for Jacques Gauthier, the pianist playing the incredible accompaniment "based on the original score"? This phenomenal contribution to the production deserves mention from the start. Gauthier's awesome "one-man" performance enhances the film experience 1,000 percent. (- Comment from an appreciative amateur pianist.)
Hes amazing .
Italian cinema was YEARS ahead of Hollywood in 1914!
Yeah .. Hollywood does this in secrecy .. get a grip not about being more advanced .. it’s about people being asleep / non conscious of the situation at hand.
Indeed ! Then WWI screwed everything up for cinema in Europe and Hollywood took over ... (Unfortunately)
This is incredible visual art. Pause it almost anywhere & you'll have the composition of a gorgeous Pre-Raphaelite painting. Silent films like this should be studied in Art History classes by art & illustration students. Basically it's a moving painting. So beautiful.
I had to think about the similarity between this genre and comics actually. Its more similar than I would have thought
This and other " old" movies from all Europe ,besides Hollywood, are actually studied in Film Schools and Colleges.
I cant believe believe this movie is over 100 years old.
105 years and still better than X-Men ........pretty EPIC
When you're young, 'five or ten years ago' seems like a different era but when you reach your fifties those times suddenly becomes '30 years old', '35 years old', '40 years old' etc. And they happen to be things that have stayed of interest to the mainstream media ie. the 70s and 80s so they seem even MORE like yesterday because they never seem to get left behind.
So....100 years....yeah I CAN believe it, it's a vast amount of time when you're young but not that long ago when you get older!
@@davidsanderson5918 I’m 60 now, and the same feeling of stretching time. Souvenirs seems pasted together to me. (let’s do the time warp again).
Did you get to see it in theaters when it came out?
Soon to be 110!
I watched 'Cabiria' on PBS in the United States before I could read the subtitles (1970's). I had no idea what it was or where it came from. On a lark, I typed "silent movie" with "Romans", that ends with a "flooded tunnel". And, here it is. Wow. Thank you.
One of silent film's best epics, still admirably watchable after more than a century.
This is a prodigious mix of theater, history and visual art. 117 years old. Real art never ages, it just becomes classic.
THANKS FOR TREASURING THIS 106-YEAR OLD TIMELESS EPIC!❤️
LOVE FROM INDIA!
A marvelous offering. An ancient film about ancient times - almost felt like I was watching a newsreel of the Punic Wars. Tossing small children into the flames was almost a show-stopper, but it is depicted at a distance in order to tone down the effect. Italy's interest in North Africa is certainly evident based on the film's subject matter. Of note are the many people of color acting in the film - some as extras but others as major characters. Many are servants, but they are shown as human beings - in contrast to Griffith's Birth of a Nation. Maciste stands out in the heroic mode, with a strongman's build without looking pumped up. At times, there appear to be jumps in the film that might mean a lost section, but one can follow the storyline. Good stuff.
Just appreciate the scale of making such a film at the dawn of cinema
Look up Ruthie Tompson.
She was 4 years old when this was made and she went on to work on many Hollywood productions like Snow White. She retired in 1975 at the age of 65 TWO YEARS before Star Wars was even released and SHE IS STILL ALIVE as of typing this comment (04.11.21)
Sometimes time just blows my mind.
Thanks for sharing. I need to check credits to see if it was Paul Robeson playing leading role.
Ruthie died at 111 years, a "supercentarian."
That final shot is absolutely stunning
Here in 1914 Giovanni Pastore filmed his masterwork Cabiria: first movie distributed all over the world.
This film, made in 1914, makes us vibrate with emotion although it does not have the characteristics of the films we see in 2020. It transmits emotion and reminds us of those disastrous days where human beings were sold as slaves. It's a great movie.
That still happens Milciades.
@@Bolt892 That's true.
@@Bolt892 In GWTW Too!
Twenty minutes in and I conclude, life was terrible for common people in ancient times. You could die any day, at any moment, you could lose everything and nobody would help you -you were on your own.
Its the same today.
Thanks for sharing this cult movie.
I ignored that it was so innovative, even Lang and others great film makers got inspired by the Pastrone's masterpiece
Grazie. Ciao
A masterpiece- the costumes , the stenography and so many extras
That was marvelous. Thank you for posting it for us to enjoy.
"intolerance" "the nations" "cabiria" "chaplins early movie "are almost made same year.but this one is more beautiful image. thank you for uploading
Intolerance was made in 1916.
Yes. Any film made and screened before 1923 is in the public domain.
what about now? 1932 and before? Is that how it works?
@@Orangeflava some things are excluded do to extensions but yes you can make money off of whinnie the poo, for instance, or this movies score
Thank you
For uploading this masterpiece
🖤🖤🖤⭐
Grazie per aver caricato questo gioiello. Saluti dall'italia ❤🇮🇹❤️
First Italian silent kolossal movie.
3:20 in fact the Decadent Aesthtetic style of Gabriele D'Annunzio remains among the major sources of inspiration for Italian cinema at its inception
Thank you for releasing it!
Very cool movie. Thank you for the upload!
could you imagine living back then ,, when you see your friends you say cannot wait for the sacrifice tonight , lets party , my god the smell of burning bodies must have been horrific ,,,, insanity ,,,,,,,,
how much time and money must have gone into the production of this film. THE costumes alone must've taken a while to make.
so hard to find this movie thank you
The length I've seen listed is 181 minutes.
In any case, this is just another unfortunate instance of a long silent film being cropped down for audiences in other countries.
Theres another on UA-cam that's 2.5 hours long; is that the original or? I'm confused as to which to watch as your upload is more popular
Cabiria has elephants. Does Birth of a Nation have elephants? I didn't think so.
listening just to the music - it is proving great for working on an artistic project for example
Sad fact: everyone in this film now is dead, even the little girl Cabiria
Italian filmmakers were the creators of "Collosal Movies"...
wasn't Archimedes Greek?
@@douglasbell1933 why doesn't the thumb down button work?
Grande filme
@@douglasbell1933 Magna Grecia "Great Greece" was in South Italy
Si Vero 🇮🇹👏👏👏👏
Extraordinary camera work for 1914. The title role isn't much of a part, but the evil, passionate, sexy queen is something else, complete with over the top death scene. Likewise the somewhat homely Roman guy; Maciste is the real hero. Great film. The story doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but the original reportedly was an hour longer.
It is a strange film this. First half is alot better & more like a epic adventure, but second half gets dragged down to soap opera level. Main cause of this is the Queen, who starts of a nice character, saving the girl, but seems to have a personality bypass as film goes on, & goes on a power trip. Excellent for 1914 though, with the scene where they sacrifice little children very creepy.
in this version not appear the music of pezzetti , "sinfonia del fuoco" during the moloch scene
Capolavoro Italiana 👆👏👏👏👏👏🇮🇹♥️🇮🇹♥️🇮🇹♥️
I like those puppies in Giovanni Pastrone's silent epic Cabiria.
croessa is so strong and loving! she would do anything for cabiria!
Devil Worship and Child Sacrifice
When you're faced with life's tough choices and you don't know where to turn or what do do, you could always stop and ask yourself, "What would Moloch do?"
😂😂
they're so rough with the kids!
The movie may be old but, we have multiple high-level witnesses saying such mass sacrifice rituals take place to this day.
It’s called planned parenthood.
And your idiotic response is called "primitive and superstitious fanaticism".
Please cite the sources that support your claim with sites, dates, witnesses, etc.
Yeah, they're called "wars".
Source?
good movie and quality of print.may be mostly expensive movie in that time.
Nice upload! I'd never seen this.
Can someone PLEASE tell me why no one uploads the film with the soundtrack in its original orchestral form? Not that the piano isn't great, but I want to see it with the original full orchestra!
dorkandproudofit In this particular case, I simply uploaded the copy I had. The music, introductory text, and everything else is just what was there on my copy of the film.
probably because the orchestra was live
it gone lost by the time, on 9816 italian silent movies, only 19 original soundtrack are arrived to us. :(
@@VolvandeseI try to upload nothing lasts forever 1984 but UA-cam won't let me
thank you very much Volvandese for this epic upload, maybe you can reload it with a better quality? i know 360p was good 4 years ago, but now youtube supports HD, it should be wonderful. bye
This reminds me of the shoplifters in Walgreens.
Moral of the story. DON'T BUILD YOUR HOUSE NEAR A VOLCANO. Trivia: They called the god of the sacrificed ankle biters Ba'al Hammon in Carthage. Tanit is his consort.
This is a pretty trippy faery tale. Nice.
Ich bin begeistert
Save the child
Holy mother of Jesus 😨
I hopes to see the original italian text by D'Annunzio
it wasn't written by him. he just sold his name to the producers for 50.000 lire.
@@panthersprung5161 If that's the case, the producers did an outstanding job of mimicking his writing style.
Il regista è stato Giovanni Pastrone, D'Annunzio ha scritto le didascalie, ma gli è stata attribuita la paternità dell'opera a scopo pubblicitario, in questo modo si dava una legittimità artistica all'opera
thanks for uploading.
31:50 "Maciste convinces the innkeeper"
Lol, I think you confused "convincing" with "manhandling"
In original it was "persuade" (he persuades), so "convincing" is not totally wrong
An epic classic.
the camera movements though
One could see why DeMille and DW Griffith would have drawn inspiration from this film
a joy to watch
TY!!!
Привет из России! Великолепный фильм!Жаль,без реставрации!
Thank you!
The director of that movie is a mason
It wasn't "Italia Films" -- the name of the company was "Itala."
It's a pity Kino couldn't have done a chamber-ensemble version of the original score, which was written by Pizetti, a close friend of the writer D'Annunzio.
At 40:40 that pet cheetah is so cute. And you can see the actress smiling at it and tying to pet it.
This is great. A relic, a melodrama. Only Pastrone didn't use any macro or closeup shots. It's just... I don't know if this is the full version (at 150 mins). The Kino version is the one I plan to get anyway, so it's good that you noted that as well. But from what I've seen from the lava inherent, the Cabiria story to the alps and onward. All riveting. A time glass at the time and a multifaceted time glass today. Do you happen to have Quo Vadis (1913)? Is that possible to upload?
The film that festered in the mind of Mussolini to commit what he did
Parla per la tua nazione fallita
@@donaldfuck Viva il Duce
Gratidão pela leitura 💙💜💙💜
great movie!
So good!
This whole movie is built to be as epic as possible and there are several scenes that are just so damn amazing for it's time (it's hard to believe that this was made in 1915 and not 1950, fr) but 1:25:00 strikes me as the absolute best shot in the whole movie
could you please upload 1937 movie Lost Horizon. Thanks
Now Gods, stand up for the Bastards…
Can someone timestamp me to where this scene occurs:
Cabiria (1914). This Italian silent epic film features a brief scene of Archimedes using his mirrors to set fire to Roman ships during the siege of Syracuse.
Thanks!
1:57:20 all I could think of was; Smells like teen spirit ...
Load up on guns, bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over-bored and self-assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word
Hello, hello, hello, how low
Hello, hello, hello, how low
Hello, hello, hello, how low
Hello, hello, hello
Art for lunch today?
Moloch statue from Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria (1914), National Museum of Cinema (Turin). You know the one....can't wait to visit.
No one has enough time to care about anything today. So we are Here, A Keanu Reaves video of him messing up a Hollywood concrete signing in front of the TCL theatre, a wiki search on moloch and then this 2:00 hour silent film later. All Hail Satan LOL LULZ Classic EPIC! I kinda liked it.
merci,merci----------------
It wasn't "Italia Films" -- the name of the company was "Itala."
If this is the kind of music that was drummed into people every day in 1914, then I fully understand that the great war has broken out. This is so depressing and, on every level, a degradation to the creation of life.
Epic and mindblowing.
Thank you for intro.
hello, what is the name art director in the film.!! pleas hlep me ...
+Ibrahim Alkandari (Gullwings18) Giovanni Pastrone
+Ibrahim Alkandari (Gullwings18) Giovanni Pastrone
The version currently on Netflix is 128 minutes. what happened to the other one and one half minutes (approximately)?
John Browne A large number of silent movies exist in several different edited forms, so it's common to find the same film at different lengths with certain scenes added or omitted depending on where the print in use was originally screened. Or it may just be that there's a little more material added to their version in terms of introduction or credits.
Volvandese ...Or, it could be something as simple as a variation in the speed of the film (approx. 1.5 mins over a period of 2+ hours).
the full movie is 168 min long
Stunning, really.
39:54 Did you hear that? What does it mean?
Yeah wth
Maybe someone's voice? Creepy as hell
I,m here for Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Planned Parenthood rally at 26:50
They spent 2.000.000 liras of the time. A very very hight amount.
The real Italian cinema gold era is from 1896 to 1919
Original length is 187 minutes
una pelicula impresionante
“PAUL ROBESON”, some of you might know old man river...
Brilliant singer, brilliant man.
Gotta love the black face.
I did enjoy this movie, but it’s also uncomfortably nationalistic. The portrayal of saintly Romans versus evil Carthaginians was, of course, nothing new in 1914, but the dichotomy is made more uncomfortable when you know that Mussolini is less than a decade away.
Lairor yes, is because of Gabriele D’annunzio
Watch Europa The Last Battle.
@@mushihimesarna728 What part of my comment made you think I want to watch neo‐Nazi propaganda?
Giulietta Masina, have nothing to do with this "Cabiria", you mean "Le notti di Cabiria" 1957 from Federico Fellini ;)
Is this movie and Intolerance in public domain?
27:00 ... so dark
Welcome to pre-Christian Europe.
ivlfounder actually thast Ba'al, or Molloch, anyway, cathiginian gods, at Carthage, North Africa.
Nicolás Castro Plested I'm fairly sure the cathiginian's had colony's in Europe as well.
Still cudo's to you for caring about history. :)
of course but in Spain... was an african tradition celebrated in Europe. ¿non?
Yeah its fucking devil shit right there burning a kid a live ....and people like this shit
Wikipedia says it's 247 minutes. Although that might been the original version. Anyways, I couldn't watch a 4 hour silent movie. Cheers!
14:11 Whatever is in the top right corner of the screen looks like an old computer monitor. XD
It's a window
No entendí nada , alguien me explica?
Yes, there are two movies I'd like to see. There are clips of both, but I would like to see them in their entirety. They are "Miracle in Milan" (English translation if possible) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (version with Micky Rooney and James Cagney).
Wait , 107 years???? Wtf
Are you serious? The child is real! 26:15!