The Ancient Mariner
Fox combined Coleridge's supernatural voyage with a modern Clara Bow melodrama, then all six reels slipped out of known film collections.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released silent fantasy feature directed by Henry Otto and Chester Bennett.
A contemporary romantic story framed a visual adaptation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Existence timeline
The poem joins the studio's coming production slate.
A modern story is planned around the sea fantasy.
Island sequences and modern scenes are completed.
Fox distributes the six-reel feature.
No archive retains a complete copy.
The national lost-film list continues to include it.
Why it ended
No complete or substantial archival print is presently known.
Last confirmed trace
Stills, reviews, production reports and the Library of Congress lost-film record preserve its two-part design.
What it left behind
The film is a lost intersection of Clara Bow's early career and one of cinema's first feature-length Coleridge adaptations.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.