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name: "The 1911 Odyssey"
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subtitle: "The first film adaptation of Homer's epic — a surviving Italian silent, free to watch"
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date: 2026-07-10
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link: "https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/watch-the-first-spectacular-film-adaptation-of-the-odyssey-1911.html"
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linkText: "openculture.com"
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source: "Open Culture"
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topics: [general-delight]
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tags: [film-history, silent-film, homer, odyssey]
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description: "L'Odissea (1911), the first-ever film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey — an Italian silent famous for its ambitious early special effects — surviving and free to watch."
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Made in 1911, L'Odissea was the first time anyone put Homer's Odyssey on a screen, and it went big: hand-tinted color, a blinded Cyclops, ships and sea-monsters conjured with the era's most ambitious practical effects. That it survives at all is the delight — you can watch a 115-year-old attempt to film the sirens and the return to Ithaca, free, in about forty minutes. Open Culture's post embeds the whole thing with context on how it was made.
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