Influenced by the Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), Griffith was convinced that feature films were commercially viable.

Nights of Cabiria was adapted as the Broadway musical Sweet Charity and the movie Sweet Charity ( 1969 ) by Bob Fosse starring Shirley MacLaine.

These including the epic Cabiria ( 1914 ), whose screenplay was attributed to Italian nationalist Gabriele d ' Annunzio.

The Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), directed by Giovanni Pastrone, was the first popular film to use dolly shots, which in fact were originally called " Cabiria movements " by contemporary filmmakers influenced by the film ; however, some smaller American and English films had used the technique prior to Cabiria, as well as Yevgeni Bauer's The Child of the Big City, released a month prior to Cabiria.

Italian director Giovanni Pastrone's silent film Cabiria ( 1914 ) was largely based on Salammbo and included an enormous image of Moloch modeled on Flaubert's description.

Cabiria was a story about a slave named Maciste ( played by Bartolomeo Pagano ) who was involved in the rescue of a Roman princess from an evil Carthaginian king who plotted to sacrifice her to the cruel god Moloch.

The first was in the Italian silent movie period, in which the original Maciste from Cabiria, the muscular actor Bartolomeo Pagano, starred in a series of at least 26 sequels over the period from 1915 through 1926.

In addition, the script of Cabiria was partially based on Gustave Flaubert's 1862 novel Salammbo and Emilio Salgari's 1908 novel Cartagine in fiamme ( Carthage in Flames ).

For years afterward a tracking shot was referred to by both cameramen and directors as a ' Cabiria ' shot.

Cabiria was the first motion picture to be screened on the grounds of the White House.

Cabiria was remade in 1931, with Pastrone serving as producer.

A restored version of Cabiria was screened on 27 May 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival, featuring a filmed introduction by director Martin Scorsese and the film is now also available on DVD.

Cabiria was therefore one of several films of the period that " helped resuscitate a distant history that legitimized Italy's past and inspired its dreams " and which " delivered the spirit for conquest that seemed to arrive from the distant past ", thereby presaging the " political rituals of fascism " ( wars of conquest, the Roman salute, parades and the fasces itself ).

The 1914 Italian silent film Cabiria was one of the first sword-and-sandal films to make use of a massively muscled character, Maciste ( played by actor Bartolomeo Pagano ) who served in this premiere film as the hero's slavishly loyal sidekick.

There, he was discovered and selected to play the role of Maciste, a muscular slave, in the silent movie classic Cabiria in 1914.

* Salammbo was also very freely adapted for the Italian silent movie classic Cabiria in 1914, which was the first of many films to star the recurring character Maciste.

in 1912, and then in the famous Cabiria ( 1914 ) to reinforce the weird atmosphere in one scene.

* The Cabiria scene in which Maciste pushes a mill wheel for ten years seemingly inspired John Milius, who shot a similar one for his movie Conan the Barbarian ( 1982 ).

The epic is among the oldest of film genres, with one early notable example being Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria, a three-hour silent film about the Punic Wars that laid the groundwork for the subsequent silent epics of D. W. Griffith.

Including " Cabiria " itself, there have been at least 52 movies featuring Maciste, 27 of them being pre-1930 silent films starring Bartolomeo Pagano and the other 25 being a series of sound / color films produced in the early 1960s.

For many years, Cabiria and Griffith's Judith of Bethulia ( 1914 ) were considered the first feature films.

In the early years, De Laurentiis produced neorealist films such as Bitter Rice ( 1946 ) and the Fellini classics La Strada ( 1954 ) and Nights of Cabiria ( 1956 ), often in collaboration with producer Carlo Ponti.

In the 1950s, some of the well-known films with artistic sensibilities include La Strada ( 1954 ), a film about a young woman who is forced to go to work for a cruel and inhumane circus performer in order to support her family and eventually coming to terms with her situation, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet ( 1956 ), centering around family with a lack of faith amongst it but with a son who believes that he is Jesus Christ and convinced that he is capable of performing miracles, Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 ), which deals with a prostitute's failed attempts to find love, and her suffering and rejections, and Wild Strawberries ( 1957 ), by Ingmar Bergman, whose narrative concerns an elderly medical doctor and professor whose nightmares lead him to re-evaluate his life, and The 400 Blows ( 1959 ) by François Truffaut, whose main character is a young man trying to come of age despite the abuse from his parents, schoolteachers, and society in general.

It is certainly true that Cabiria tapped into Italy's celebration of its colonial adventure in Libya, and that Maciste appears as the ideal slave, always longing to be re-united with his Roman master.

Cabiria ( 1914 ) is a silent movie from the early years of Italy's movie industry, directed by Giovanni Pastrone ( 1883-1959 ) and shot in Turin.

Like Birth of a Nation, Cabiria has aroused its share of controversy because of the political nature of its subject matter.

( 1912 ), which ran for 90 minutes, and Pastrone's Cabiria of 1914, which ran for two and a half hours.

: This article is about Giovanni Pastrone's 1914 silent film ; for the Federico Fellini film, see The Nights of Cabiria.

The fugitive servants divide up the treasure ( Croessa gets a ring ) and make for the sea, but soon run afoul of Phoenician pirates who take Croessa and Cabiria to Carthage where the little girl is sold to Karthalo, the High Priest.

Croessa tries to prevent the sacrifice of Cabiria by pretending she is ill, but is whipped for her deception.

Meanwhile, Fulvius finds time to look for Maciste and Cabiria — now prisoners for 10 years.

Sophonisba, writhing in agony, reveals that Cabiria still lives and, as repayment for the gift of death, she will be spared a second time from the fate of living sacrifice.

It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria.

She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively.

In 1957, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her portrayal of the title role in Fellini's Nights of Cabiria.

* Sinfonia del fuoco ( from music for the silent film Cabiria )

In Giovanni Pastrone's epic film Cabiria ( 1913 ), the heroine is saved from being sacrificed to Molech.

Croessa, Fulvius and Maciste sneak into the temple and the slave boldly snatches Cabiria away from the priest.

Fulvius, Maciste and Cabiria are ambushed by the Priest ’ s henchmen as they attempt to flee the city the next morning, but Fulvius escapes by leaping spectacularly from a high precipice and swimming away.

He intrudes through a window just in time to save Elissa — whom he now recognizes as Cabiria — from a dire fate at the Priest's hands.

Cabiria is retrieved from her prison cell and arrives in time to see the moribund Queen expire.