bartering "a dance for the head of a man." Like many American films of the time, Salomé was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 5, of a closeup of Salome in a litter where she raises her arm and exposes a breast, Reel 6, scene of executioner's sword descending, and, Reel 8, in two scenes where Salome is shown bending over dungeon, portions of film where her breasts are exposed. Preservation statusSalomé is now considered to be a lost film,Salome at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted(Wayback Machine) though two minutes worth of fragments are held by the Filmoteca Española, who uploaded them to Vimeo on October 2, 2021. French film preservationist and historian Henri Langlois said he had the opportunity to buy this film but dismissed it as he felt that the film was not considered a classic. He subsequently realized his lost chance and regretted prejudging which films as worthy of preserving, deciding instead to preserve whatever film he was able to. In popular culture A scene in the 1918 film The Cook'', starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, spoofs parts of this movie, with Arbuckle dressing in drag and doing his best "Salomé" impression. See also List of American films of 1918 List of lost films 1937 Fox vault fire References External links Alternate lobby poster Film still at silenthollywood.com , Filmoteca Española (2 minutes) 1918 films 1918 drama films Fox Film films Silent American drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by J. Gordon Edwards Films set in the 1st century Films shot in California Lost American films Cultural depictions of John the Baptist 1918 lost films Lost drama films Cultural depictions of Salome 1910s American films