Salomé (1918) — Complete Film
Theda Bara's lavish biblical spectacle once ran for more than an hour; a rediscovered two-minute fragment is all that can now move on screen.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
The complete original cut of J. Gordon Edwards's silent Fox production starring Theda Bara.
The film presented the dance and downfall of Salomé through large sets, elaborate costumes and Fox's most famous vamp star.
Existence timeline
Theda Bara stars in the large-scale biblical drama.
The complete silent feature reaches cinemas.
A major studio fire destroys many silent-era negatives.
Archives list the feature as lost in its original form.
Filmoteca Española finds roughly two minutes of footage.
Only fragments, stills and documentation survive.
Why it ended
No complete print is known to survive; the archive unit is the original full public film, not the later recovered fragment.
Last confirmed trace
Filmoteca Española identified roughly two minutes of nitrate fragments in 2021, supplementing stills and printed publicity.
What it left behind
The discovery showed that a work can remain officially gone in complete form while newly recovered pieces change what can be seen.
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.