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June 18, 2025
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The
Cinémathèque française screens a film by Sidney Olcott
(bis)
Web page from the Cinémathèque française website
announcing the screening of The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy.
I was a bit hasty when I wrote the previous post on this
blog: “Cinémathèque
française screens a Sidney Olcott film”. Because not
one, but two films by the Canadian director were shown on
the big screen of the venerable institution created by Henri
Langlois, along with Georges Franju and Jean Mitry, who we
tend to forget.
The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg
(1911), Thursday June 12, at 6:30 p.m. and then, the
following day at 8 p.m., The Further Adventures of
the Girl Spy (1910). These two strips recount
the adventures of Nan, an intrepid young woman, played by
Gene Gauntier, who is also the screenwriter of these
stories, whose particularity - and this is a first - is to
develop a Southern point of view. And this long before David
W. Griffith.
I expressed one regret: that the other two films in the
series - not yet called “Girl Spy” - were not included in
the “Nasty
Women, the shameless of cinema” program.
The Girl Spy: An incident of the Civil War (1910),
the first film in the series, is held at the Library and
Archives of Canada (Ottawa). It could have been part of the
program. It's just a way of clearing my conscience a little.
Kalem advertisements for films in The Girl Spy series,
published by the weekly trade magazine The Film Index in
1910 and 1911.
Sorry for my English
Complementary articles
- The
Girl Spy : An incident of the Civil War
- The
Further Adventures of the Girl Spy
- The
Bravest Girl in the South
- The
Love Romance of the Girl Spy
- The
Girl Spy Befoire Vicksburg
- To
the Aid of Stonewal Jackson : An Exploit of the
Girl Spy
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Archives
The
Cinémathèque française screens a film by Sidney Olcott
When
J. P. McGowan claims Paternity of From the Manger
to the Cross
A Daughter
of Old Ireland Olcott's forgotten film
Gene Gauntier's Hidden Child
The
Humming Bird released in Finland and
Brazil but not in France
Olcott uses James Tissot's Bible
as a storyboard
Olcott : "I can
be reached at Hollywood Athletic Club"
Sequences of The
Right Way (1921) avaible on Vimeo
Stan Laurel
parodies Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur
Don't Care
A sequence of Monsieur Beaucaire
in the biopic Valentino (1951)
"The
Paymaster" the first role of Gene
Gauntier at the movies
Sidney
Olcott working in the studio sets
Behind
«
Singing
in the Rain
»,
«Monsieur
Beaucaire
»
Sidney
Olcott directs cartoons
In
Los
Angeles, Gene Gauntier meets her old
Kalem friends
Films
directed by Sidney Olcott still
extant
Two Olcott among the fifty
favorite movies of DW Griffith
In
Hollywood, Sidney Olcott is the king of the move
Anthony Slide
writes a new chapter on the O'Kalems
Malcolm
Lowry, Robert Desnos and Sidney Olcott
In the set of Monsieur
Beaucaire, speak French please !
The Death certificate of Gene
Gauntier in Cuernavaca
Dead in Mexico, Gene Gauntier is
buried in Sweden
"Egypt as it Was in the Time of
Moses" on YouTube
Olcott
shoots " The Amateur Gentleman " in a
lawyer house
A picture of Valentine Grant,
girl
On RTE Radio, Tony Tracy tells
the story of The O'Kalems
In
the Archives of RTE, the epic of the O'Kalems
Robert Vignola tells the
circumstances of Olcott's death
On
the trail of Olcott in Egypt and Palestine
Henderson-Bland,
Olcott's
Christ is not who one thinks
One day, Sidney Olcott wanted to
become an American
Philly, le domestique d'Olcott
disparaît en Egypte. Assassiné ?
Finally, Sidney Olcott's grave
is in Toronto ! I saw its still
Gene Gauntier is the stepsister
of one of the richest men
Happy Birthday, Miss Valentine
Grant
In Olcott's Building, the
Heiress of a Newfound Oild Tycoon Strangled
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