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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Carmine Gallone |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 21 September, 1939 |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Dubbed, Restored, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Epic, Special Interests, History |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 009432007892 |
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"Hollywood becomes reality" by RexCurry.net This is an historic and sweeping film. This film has a lot of historic propaganda value. Just remember the time frame when the film was made. Carmine Gallone's Scipione l'Africano uses the raised-arm salute as one of its chief visual means to turn Mussolini into a new Scipio.
In fact you should view these four films also: the American "Ben-Hur" (1907), the Italian "Nerone" (1908), "Spartaco" (1914), and "Cabiria" (1914). These films were the origin of the "Roman salute" myth because these films show examples of a straight-arm salute. The "Roman salute" myth is the myth that the straight-arm salute was an ancient Roman custom, later borrowed by Mussolini and the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
The myth arose because of the made-up film portrayals in these films. These films are notable also because they led to the historic discovery by the journalist and historian Rex Curry that the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance was the origin of the salute of the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party).
The "Roman Salute" myth grew because the viewing public forgot that the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance originally used the straight-arm salute. The creator of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance was a National Socialist in the U.S. (Francis Bellamy). The salute is not in any Roman art or text. Dr. Martin Winkler of the American Philological Association has written that in imitation of such films, self-styled Italian "Consul" Gabriele D 'Annunzio borrowed the salute as a propaganda tool for his political ambitions upon his occupation of Fiume in 1919. Earlier, D'Annunzio had worked with Giovanni Pastrone in his colossal epic Cabiria (1914). Mussolini worked with D'Annunzio. Even so, evidence shows that the National Socialist German Workers' Party officially adopted the salute before Mussolini did, not vice versa.
Dr. Winkler didn't know about the original U.S. flag salute (1892) that inspired the films, and that the National Socialist German Workers' Party was inspired by the films and by the Pledge of Allegiance. The U.S. changed the salute during WWII.
a good classic
this is a very good movie for the era which it was filmed. also makes a good find for silent movie buffs. I hope the remake of HANNIBAL featuring VIN DIESEL will live up to it's billing, (as well as the LEONARDO DiCAPRIO movie about ALEXANDER the GREAT)....
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