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| | Kalem Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Two years later, after having made close to one thousand motion pictures, the Kalem Company was sold to Vitagraph Studios. | | | Kalem had no indoor studios, so most of its films were shot on location. | | | The company began operations from a small office at 131 West Twenty-fourth Street in New York City. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalem_Company
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| | Blazing the Trail Part Two |
| | That scene of whitewashing the fence was my inspiration, for I saw it in every detail just as it would appear in the picture. | | | Olcott and I went to the racetrack, found the props impossible and the supers inadequate, hurried back to Swain's Agency and interviewed people for the cast and for extras, and late in the evening rushed clown to Elliott's and remained until after midnight selecting props and hundreds of costumes. | | | Olcott had been engaged by Kalem to direct a one-reel picture of about a thousand feet every week for the munificent sum of ten dollars per picture! |
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http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/4_blaze2.htm
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| | Stardust and Shadows |
| | Foster quotes extensively from interviews of the stars that he has collected over the years, and through these, coupled with additional research, he gives an entertaining and well-written insight into the lives of 18 silent movie greats. | | | Through an introduction to Canadian and silent movie director Sidney Olcott, his 19 days of leave turned into the stuff we can only dream of. | | | This was the beginning of Foster's interest in Canadians who made their mark in Hollywood, and over the next 50 years he collected all the information he could on them enough to fill 500 volumes and also talked to more than 500 veterans of the early days in Hollywood. |
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http://www.silentsaregolden.com/fosterbook.html
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| | Turner Classic Movies This Month Article |
| | Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne in A Guy Named Joe (1943) and Cabin in the Sky (1943) are among the 5 movies being spotlighted in our festival. | | | The movie was named to the National Film Registry in 1998. | | | Principal Cast: Robert Henderson-Bland (Jesus, the man), Percy Dyer (the Boy Christ), Gene Gauntier (the Virgin Mary), Alice Hollister (Mary Magdalene), Sidney Olcott (Blind Man), Samuel Morgan (Pilate), James D. Ainsley (John the Baptist), Robert G. Vignola (Judas), George Kellog (Herod). |
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http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/ThisMonth/Article/0,,62583,00.html
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| | National Film Preservation Foundation - Films Preserved Through the NFPF |
| | Colleen Bawn, The, the surviving reel of an early Sidney Olcott three-reeler, shot on location in Ireland (George Eastman House). | | | Forbes Collection, early home movies of the Maine coast and Naushon Island, captured on 28mm film (Northeast Historic Film). | | | Professor’s Painless Cure, The, Vitagraph comedy directed by and starring Sidney Drew (George Eastman House). |
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http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved/date.php?link1=191
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| | - An Index to The American Theosophist 1933 - 1996, Wheaton |
| | AmerTh y1933 v21 i5 May p107 - Spring at Olcott -- The Gardener | | | AmerTh y1933 v21 i12 December p274 - The Greater America Plan -- Pieter K Roest, Anita Henkel, Sidney A Cook | | | AmerTh y1934 v22 i12 December p275 - The Great America Plan -- Pieter K Roest, Anita Henkel, Sidney A Cook |
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http://www.austheos.org.au/indices/AMERTH.HTM
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| | Sidney Olcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With a desire to be an actor, a young Sidney Olcott went to New York City where he worked in the theater until 1904 when he performed as a film actor with the Biograph Studios. | | | Olcott was a founding member of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a forerunner to today's Directors Guild of America and would later serve as its president. | | | Like the rest of the film industry, Sidney Olcott moved to Hollywood, California, where he directed many more successful and acclaimed motion pictures with the leading stars of the day. |
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http://www.bucyrus.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Sidney_Olcott
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| | Wikinfo December 16 |
| | 1949 - Sidney Olcott, pioneer motion picture director |
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http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/wiki.php?title=December_16
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| | The Green Goddess (1923) |
| | Olcott, in directing, adhered closely to the stage presentation, with the sub-titles (at least 50 per cent of the entertainment's qualities) being lifted directly from the original script. | | | Photography and lightings are splendid and the sets appropriate if not elaborate. | | | Adapted from William Archer's play of the same name by Forrest Halsey, starring George Arliss and featuring Alice Joyce. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/AJ/reviews/gg.htm
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| | Turner Classic Movies - Movie News |
| | Director Sidney Olcott took his cast out of the studio and into the real world, actually traveling to Egypt and the Holy Land to film on the actual locations. | | | In addition to its value as an historical document, Olcott's film also crossed the one-hour barrier to become the first American feature film. | | | Palestine may have changed in the previous 1900 years, but not as much as it would change in the next century, and this movie gives an almost documentary, highly realistic view of the life of Jesus as it might have looked two millennia before. |
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http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/MovieNews/Index/0,,26510,00.html
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| | Kino Film: From The Manger To The Cross |
| | Sidney Olcott's From the Manger to the Cross (1912), however, was a notable exception in that it was actually filmed on location in the Holy Land instead of against painted backdrops. | | | The film's genesis began when a small crew was sent by the New York-based Kalem Company to the Middle East to produce a quick series of Arabian potboilers. | | | Its ambitious five-reel length allowed the Passion play to be enacted in rich detail, whether exhibited as a series of chapters, or as a single 70 minute feature. |
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http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?film_id=112
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| | 1907 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | November 28 - In, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater (in a few years he had the largest theater chain in New England and in 1917 he founded his own production company, which eventually became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). | | | First Ben Hur film, directed by Sidney Olcott | | | Laemmle's experiements lead to the German development of "Syncroscope." "Syncroscope" had several successful demonstrations, but was eventually abandoned. |
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http://www.secaucus.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/1907_in_film
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| | Blazing the Trail Part One |
| | If during the actual training he heard the cameraman say quietly, "Speed up, Sid; film's running out," he would dance up and down shouting, "Hurry up, folks; film's going. | | | Olcott, the director, gathered about him a score of actors who were his personal friends and threw himself whole-heartedly into the work. | | | Marion made was to raise the wages of the actor to five dollars a day, thereby compelling all other companies to follow suit, And in February of 1907 the first picture, The Sleigh Belle, was filmed, followed some weeks later by The Pony Express. |
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http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/4_blaze1.htm
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| | 1913 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Griffith completes his series of, begun in 1909, and leaves the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City to make full length motion pictures. | | | The Sea Wolf, based on the novel by Jack London | | | Sidney Olcott directs From the Manger To the Cross. |
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http://www.bexley.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/1913_in_film
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| | The Only Woman (1924) |
| | Olcott has handled his share of the work wonderfully well, carrying the story along in great shape and not permitting it to lag at any stage. | | | Shown at the Capitol, New York, week Nov. 2. | | | If it wasn't for Norma Talmadge being the star of this production and if it hadn't been directed by Sidney Olcott, "The Only Woman" would be a typical small timer. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/NT/oldreviews/tow.htm
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| | MTV.com - Movies - Madame Butterfly |
| | Olcott reportedly wanted Pickford to be more reserved and Oriental and walked off the set in protest of her too Americanized Cio Cio San. | | | The star fought director Sidney Olcott tooth and nails throughout the filming at Plainfield and Bernardsville, New Jersey. | | | Pickford's friend Marshall Neilan played Pinkerton, heading a supporting cast of Caucasian actors, few of whom looked any more Asian than Pickford. |
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http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/66037/plot.jhtml
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| | Flickerings@Cornerstone Festival 2004 |
| | A couple years later, director Sidney Olcott was to borrow costumes from the Metropolitan Opera and film the first short screen version of Ben Hur (1907) in Manhattan's Battery Park — but that even that film was not much more of an epic than this modest life of Christ. | | | Then again, one wonders what this motion picture Gospel must have meant to people who had never seen any depictions of before this of Jesus with the wind blowing his hair, or his very human collapse of face into hands to weep over Lazarus. | | | It would be the Italians, appropriately, who were to invent the screen spectacle, no doubt inspired by the ever-present ruins and reminders of ancient glory, and intrigued by the possibilities of cinema in bringing them back to life. |
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http://www.flickerings.com/2004/films/jesusmovies/silents1.htm
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| | Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood: Information From Answers.com |
| | Foster visited Hollywood where he was introduced to Canadian and silent movie director Sidney Olcott. | | | Although total strangers, young Foster was welcomed with open arms. | | | In his book titled "Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood," Charles Foster recounted his experiences meeting some of these Canadians while on leave from the Royal Air Force during World War II. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/canadian-pioneers-in-early-hollywood
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| | The Humming Bird |
| | The answer came when she was introduced to scriptwriter Forest Halsey who was working on The Humming Bird (based on an earlier play by Maud Fulton) for director Sidney Olcott. | | | Gloria enjoyed working in New York so much that she was determined to find a good script so that she could remain there. | | | Olcott agreed to give the role to Swanson. |
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http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/gshummingbird.html
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| | Jesus at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years |
| | In Jesus at the Movies Barnes Tatum has created a fascinating and exhaustively-researched viewer's guide to the movies about Jesus. | | | Tatum guides the reader film-by-film from Sidney Olcott's silent classic "From the Manger to the Cross" through Denis Arcand's award-winning "Jesus of Montreal" to the future of Jesus movies. | | | With his experience as author, biblical scholar, and teacher on religion and film, he presents this unique look at Jesus films in all dimensions: as cinematic art, as literature, as biblical history and as theology. |
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http://www.westarinstitute.org/Polebridge/Title/Movies/movies.html
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| | Reel.com Search Results |
| | Sidney Olcott has directed the following movies, ordered with the most recent movie first. | | | For more information on searching, go to our Search Tips page. | | | Please click on a title to learn more about it. |
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http://www.reel.com/filmography.asp?SFor=3&NMID=104240
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| | Rudolph Valentino Chronology |
| | Production costs soar, but the ultimate result is a film of outstanding beauty. | | | In the spring and through the summer Rudy begins work on Monsieur Beaucaire in earnest. | | | Production is supervised by Natacha and is directed by Sidney Olcott. |
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http://www.geocities.com/~rudyfan/rv-chron4.htm
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| | MRC FilmFinder-Directory Filmography |
| | This page was last updated Monday, July 18, 2005. | | | New Search More info on Sidney Olcott at The Internet Movie Database | | | Records 1 - 1 of 1 film(s) that match your query in the Media Resources Center Collection. |
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http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/films/director.php?director_id=1773
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| | Gene Gauntier Supersite |
| | Kalem Company - and among those he brought with him were Kalem's leading lady and principal screenwriter, Gene Gauntier, actor Robert Vignola and cameraman, George Hollister. | | | Filmografia - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Sidney Olcott (Kalem); a: *Frank Oakes Rose, Gene Gauntier (G1, K2; K says this was definitely the second Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde film of 1908) 1913 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. | | | Flickerings@Cornerstone Festival 2004 - the Manger to the Cross (or Jesus of Nazareth) (1912) Directed by Sidney Olcott Scenario by Gene Gauntier Robert Henderson-Bland (Jesus), Mary (Gene Gauntier), Alice Hollister (Mary Magdalene), Samuel. |
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http://auctions.dunningadvertising.com/listings/gene-gauntier.htm
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| | My Horror Page. |
| | The Frankenstein family tree did not begin until 1914 when Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen made The Golam. | | | In 1913, Sidney Olcott and Thomas Hayes Hunter made The Vampire, but the Dracula family tree did not begin until 1922 when F.W. Murnaus made Nosferatu. | | | In 1910, Thomas Edison produced the first horror movie in U.S. history. |
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http://members.aol.com/rascrzynaz/horror.htm
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| | Amazon.com: DVD: Not So Long Ago (1925) |
| | Customers who bought DVDs directed by Sidney Olcott also bought DVDs by these directors: | | | Be the first person to review this DVD! |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001Z93A2?v=glance
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| | Category - silent |
| | Failure to do so will result in an incomplete order form, which will either delay your order or cancel it altogether. | | | West In The Land Of The Bolsheviks (1924/Lev Kuleshov) | | | From The Manger To The Cross (1915/Sidney Olcott) |
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http://cinemaclassics.com/warehouse.php?category=silent
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| | Articles - Silent film |
| | Oliver Twist, 1912 (First American feature film made) | | | From the Manger To the Cross, Sidney Olcott, 1912 |
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http://www.gaple.com/articles/Silent_film
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| | Sidney Olcott Movies @ Filmbug |
| | Click here for region 2 encoded Sidney Olcott DVDs (Europe, Japan, Middle East and South Africa). | | | Movies on DVD with or related to Sidney Olcott. |
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http://www.filmbug.com/db/343333-2
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| | Silent Era : PSFL : The Belgian (1918) |
| | Sidney Olcott Players, Incorporated, production; distributed by U.S. Exhibitors’ Booking Corporation. |
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http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/Belgian1918.html
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| | filmbrary.html |
| | Sidney Fox, Conrad Nagel, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart. | | | William Powell, Evelyn Brent, Frank McHugh, George Sidney. | | | 1934 Call It Murder (original title: Midnight) Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull, Humphrey Bogart. |
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http://www.wbenjamin.org/bfb/filmbrary.html
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| | Violet Books: Jeffery Farnol Film Adaptations |
| | He has to save his father from unjust imprisonment & strive not to lose the love of aristcratic Lady Cleone Meredith when inevitably his true identity is revealed. | | | Olcott is best remembered for having directed Mary Pickford in Madame Butterfly (1915). | | | Directed by Sidney Olcott from a scenario by Lillie Hayward. |
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http://www.violetbooks.com/farnol-films.html
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| | Sidney Olcott - Northern Stars |
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http://www.northernstars.ca/directorsmz/olcott.html
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| | Silent Era : PSFL : Ancient Temples of Egypt (1912) |
| | Cast: Gene Gauntier, Jack Clark, Alice Hollister, J.P. McGowan, Robert Vignola, Doris Hollister, George Hollister Jr., [?] Alan Farnum?, [?] Philly McDonald?, [?] Sidney Olcott?, [?] Ameen Zatoun?, [?] Abdullah Ya Fari?) |
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http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AncientTemplesofEgypt1912.html
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