eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result #006 THE FALL OF BABYLON 1/2sh '19 Marshall Date Sold 7/31/2001Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Theatrical Unfolded Original Half-Sheet (measures 22x28) (Learn More) The Fall of Babylon, the 1919 D.W. Griffith silent romantic Biblical disaster melodrama ("125,000 men and women in the might production"; "7,500 horses in the marvelous race along the Euphrates"; "See the hordes of Cyrus before the mighty wall of fire"; "See the fountains that sparkle with wine"; loosely based on the story of the destruction of Babylonia in 539 B.C. by Persia, adding in a beautiful mountain girl who unsuccessfully tries to stop it when she falls in love with the ruler of Babylonia) starring Tully Marshall, Constance Talmadge ("See Constance Talmadge as The Mountain Girl"), Alfred Paget, Elmo Lincoln, and Elmer Clifton. Note that D.W. Griffith followed up his massive 1915 success, "The Birth of a Nation", with the 1916 "Intolerance", which was a multi-section movie showing intolerance through the ages. It was not nearly as successful as "The Birth of a Nation", so to try to reap more financial rewards out of it, Griffith in 1919, re-edited the portion of this movie that was set in Babylon, and expanded it (using discarded footage and also shooting new footage) into this feature film, re-titled "The Fall of Babylon". He also did the same with the "modern" portion (set in the then "present day" of 1916) of "Intolerance", and it was released as "Mother and the Law". NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a hand-colored half-sheet. In the days of silent film prior to the invention of good quality full-color printing, studios would have half-sheets printed in black and white and then amazingly would hire women to hand-color the half-sheets one at a time (apparently labor was very cheap at the time)! So, each half-sheet is colored slightly differently, and the coloring is never a perfect match. Condition: very good. There is black pen writing across the top blank border and top of the border art border. There are lots of tiny brown water stains in the bottom 3" of the poster as well as a few in the other three blank borders. Note that while this poster Learn More about condition grades
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