This is the first feature film to be shown in its entirety, in one screening, in the USA. Prior to this it was thought audiences wouldn't be prepared to sit for over an hour to watch a feature - films such as Les Misérables (1909) and The Life of Moses (1909) were shown in episodic parts over the course of a month or two.
Considered to be the first Italian, and oldest surviving feature-length film.
While credited as a loose rendition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy Poem Inferno, the entirety of the motion picture follows every laid out sequence in his narrative.
The men being chewed away by the three heads of the Devil in the film's climax are Brutus, Cassius and Judas Iscariot. The three are considered history's greatest traitors.
In July 1911, the Monopol Film Company claimed to be the first USA film distributor to use 24-sheet billboard posters to promote a film.