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Describe Ancient Mariner

Answer 1

The Ancient Mariner is a 1925 American fantasy-drama silent film based on the popular poem, The Rime of the Ancient Marinerby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798.[1] The film was directed by Henry Ottoand Chester Bennett, and it was adapted for the screen by Eve Unsell. The film stars Clara Bow, Gladys Brockwell, Nigel De Brulier and was distributed by Fox Film Corporation. The film is presumed to be lost.[2][3]
The publicity department at Fox Films launched a special campaign to promote the film, by sending several "exploitation men" to cover every major area of the country.[3][5] The campaign blitz included sending sales letters, pamphlets and posters to schools, academies, libraries and literary associationsacross the country. Close to a hundred thousand bookmarks were distributed to public libraries, with a message promoting the film as a Christmas attraction. A seven-colored half-sheet lithograph, produced by noted Spanish artist Luis Usabal, was distributed to societies who posted them in their reading rooms and other common areas.[5] Fox also sponsored an “Ancient Mariner Essay Contest” in almost 100 newspapers, for students in public, private and parochial schools and academies, which included monetary prizes and free film tickets for the best essay on the subject.[3][5] The film spent eight months in production, and turned out to be a moderately expensive production that eventually lost $33,000 for the company.[6]

Gustave Doré, a widely known illustrator, made a complete set of drawings for the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and it was these drawings that many of the scenes of the film were based.[3]



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