The 1897 film by George Méliès After The Ball was much earlier, but uses simulated nudity via use of body stockings.

Famous Greek actor Kimon Spathopoulos contributed his knowledge as a make-up artist.

A shepherd character named Lamon, finds a young boy sucking milk from one of its goats.

In the film Daphnis and Chloe, the two small shepherds, grow up together in the mountains of the ancient Greek island of Lesbos and with the arrival of puberty.

A young prince persistently desires Chloe but she is finally saved by Daphne who violently intervenes.

Daphnis is arrested and sentenced to be flogged to death but at the last moment, it is revealed that the young shepherd, who had been abandoned as an infant in the forest, belongs to a noble family.

[9] The actors were amateurs and the protagonists, the Greek-American dancer Lousi (Loukia) Matli - and Apollo Marsyas (pseudonym of the later photographer Edison Vichos) were presented by the production as "young people of ancient Greek profile".

The film offers discrepancies: Laskos did not add the raid of the bandits and the Mithymnians, due to high production costs.