Film technology never experienced such rapid and far‑reaching progress as in the period between the mid‑1920s and the late 1930s. Nothing can illustrate this achievement better than *The Thief of Bagdad*, the 1924 epic fantasy adventure and one of the greatest films of the silent era, when it is compared with its eponymous 1940 British remake, which provided audiences not only with sound but also with colour. Like i…