Is there a copy?
There's a remark in trivia section - "Since no copy of it is known to exist..."
Still 9 people gave their voting and there's even one comment. So - is there a copy, or not?
This classic film is still considered lost & yet eleven people have since "voted" on it............Funny that.........They must know something that we obviously don't know then!
I think people must just be "speculating" on how the picture could be viewed today perhaps.It is the same with other classic "lost" films such as Theda Bara's 1917 Cleopatra which mysteriously has also "acquired" votes.
You would think that when a film is classified as lost or unavailable the voting facility could not be activated which would certainly avoid confusion & possible "one-upmanship" too!!!!!!!!!
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This film isn't lost so they may have seen it.
Even so, it is theoritically possible that a 90 year old person with an extremely good memory logs on to the IMDB. It could happen.
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To make it easier on the 90-something years old's memory, the 1912 film is now on YouTube.
"When there is no more room in the Oven,
the Bread will walk the Earth."
Thank You. Quality of this Youtube-version is pretty good. This Quo Vadis has been one of the hardest films to find. This is must for everyone interested in film history, since this is one of the first "real" movies. 1906 "Story of Kelly Kang" was the first, but that one seems to be lost. 1911 there was "L'Inferno" (Youtube), 1912 "From the Manger to the Cross" (Youtube), but are there any other, older feature-length movies? Does anybody know? From 1913 onwards there are many films available in Youtube and archive.org.
(Perhaps You could also tell if there was some place where I could find 1912 "Richard III"? Other old important movies I've been searching for a long time are 1908 "A Visit to Seaside", the first colour-film (Lost?), 1910 "In Old California" (Never released?), 1912 "Queen Elizabeth / Les Amours de la reine Elizabeth" (something can be found in Youtube), 1913 "Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompeii").
I saw this version of "Quo Vadis" at the National Film Theatre in London in the early 1970s. Also the 1924 version, with Emil Jannings, which is more sumptuous. The British Film Institute has preserved copies of both. You will find that other countries' film preservation societies have copies as well.
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