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SAVING CLEOPATRA HOME PAGE

Welcome to the home page of Saving Cleopatra. We hope you will take an interest in our project and join us in our efforts in film art restoration. If your time is limited please jump to the SPONSORSHIP PAGE  and enjoy these wonderful illustrations as we rescue them from the ravages of chemical disintegration.  See how you can join in the restoration process itself. If time permits please read on for a more detailed review of our project.

PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORSHIP PAGE FOR MORE DETAILS ON HOW YOU CAN HELP IN SAVING THESE VALUABLE ARTIFACTS FROM DESTRUCTION.

Recent Archeological work in the Harbor of Alexandria is directed toward the discovery of the legendary palace of ALEXANDER THE GREAT. This  palace was conceived and created  by Alexander and built by the  Ptolemy the Great as he took command of that portion of Alexander's empire. It was later the abode of the legendary Queen CLEOPATRA.

In a far less historically significant discovery we have recently uncovered a lost storage box of plans, sketches, material samples,  and illustrations conceived for the film Cleopatra. The film conception of Cleopatra's Palace spanned over 5 years and two continents. It was a collaboration of thousands of artists and craftsman in Hollywood London & Rome. While acknowledging the many criticisms of the film, the creation of the palace was unquestionably a masterpiece in motion picture art direction.

This project has three goals:

    The first goal is to carry out the restoration on 36 KODAK transparencies which are fading badly and will soon be lost forever. It is these transparencies which hold the key to recreating Cleopatra's palace as depicted in the film.

    The second goal is to build a virtual model of the palace as (conceived in the film) and compare it to the actual archeological work going on in Alexandria.

    The third goal is to document this journey in a film recording these discoveries for the world to enjoy and profit from.

The real quest of our journey is to enter into the world of creative intuition in art and poetry and probe at the veiled logic that moves an artist from point A to point B. The Library Of Alexandria was destroyed by Caesar's army. As a result we have no visual record of the palace configuration or its exact location. If we should discover that this film work based on extensive research, but undoubtedly laced with intuitive jumps in logic, could in some small way assist in brining attention and support to the real archeology, that indeed would be a most delightful accomplishment.

This is a project mixed in fact & fantasy. If your interests tend to take you down the path of mystery, adventure and creativity with a better understanding of film design as your goal, welcome. 

We will need the help of historians, archeologists, film scientists, engineers and simple enthusiasts. If you have wondered about the journey a film artists takes from script to screen, this site may shed some light on that process.

As we create what will undoubtedly be an imperfect probe in to a world where our credentials may be  suspect, we invite any and all comments, corrections and most importantly contribution in time and resources that will help us along on our journey.

What's New

The following is a list of recent additions to our web. Whenever we publish a paper, write a specification, submit a status report, or add anything else to our web, we'll put a notice here. Every month we'll remove the oldest items. The most recent changes are listed first, and each item is linked to the page with the updated content.

08/26/10

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