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Dec 1, 2011 · It is a moment near the end of The Lad From Old Ireland, a silent film in flickering black and white, directed by Sidney Olcott and produced by The Kalem Company in 1910. It was the first transatlantic film, the first-ever fiction movie to be made in Ireland, and it was extraordinarily ahead of its time. Despite these landmark achievements ...
Mar 14, 2024 · In the 12-minute silent film "The Lad from Old Ireland," poor Irish farmer Terry (played by Sidney Olcott) has grown tired of working the land and dreams of a better life. He decides to head west ...
The Conspiracy of Pontiac; or, at Fort Detroit in 1763: Directed by Sidney Olcott. The story, which is well known to every school child, is taken from Parkman's History and is presented without alteration or embellishment, and in the number of people employed and in the character or the scenic mountings is by long odds the greatest Indian production yet offered under the Kalem trade-mark.
Sidney Olcott died in Hollywood on December 16, 1949. If he spent the last years of his life in the capital of cinema, where he shot a little. The traveler filmmaker is a man of the East: New York, Fort Lee, Jacksonville, Florida...
Ben Hur: Directed by Sidney Olcott, Frank Oakes Rose. With Gene Gauntier, Harry T. Morey, William S. Hart, Herman Rottger. The scene opens with an assembly of citizens who are harangued by one of their number, whose words have great weight with the crowd, and their attitude of approval shows that Roman misrule in Jerusalem has reached its climax.
Biografía. Su verdadero nombre era John Sidney Alcott, nació en Toronto, Ontario ( Canadá ). Llegó a ser uno de los primeros grandes directores de la industria cinematográfica. Con el deseo de ser actor, de joven viajó a Nueva York, donde trabajó en el teatro hasta 1904, para posteriormente actuar en el cine con los Biograph Studios.
The Navajo's Bride: Directed by Sidney Olcott. With Gene Gauntier.
