SYDENHAM PICTURES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11756, 21 July 1916, Page 5

SYDENHAM PICTURES.

" CABIRIA." Both as a marvel of film production and as a popular favourite, " Quo Vsdis" has been ousted from its proud position at the head of all film plays. There is a new picture in which all tho most wonderful '' stunts" of the kuiema man have been combined with a thrilling play from the pen of tho great Italian author, Gabrielo d'Annunzio. The film is called *'• Cabiria." It is at once the most mostly, the most successful, the most spectacular and the most complete picture play ever constructed. The Ttaln Film Company, of Turin, Italy, already noted for its: enterprise and originality, is responsible for this picture. Apart from the plot and the live interest of the play, both of which are ingenious aud absorbing, the picture is remarkable because its scenes are drawn from the Punic wars the lone; and fearful contests between ancient Pome and ancient Carthage, for the dominion of the world. These wars took place in the third century before Christ, and that is the epoch in which "Cabiria" is laid. No moie fitting time could have, been chesen for the production of the :11m than the present. The world is distraught with tha horrors of the present war. and historians tell us that this present war against Germany exceeds in magnitude even the Punic wars of 218 B.C:. That was a war of extermination, a war for very existence, as this one is. It ended in the triumph of Rome.