He shoots in locations and not in front of painted canvases.

He set up Hollywood in Florida.

He supplies arms to the Irish Volunteers.

He's the only man to have filmed the life and death of Christ in the Holy Land.

He is the director who has shot the most films in Ireland.

He is one of the first traveling filmmakers.VV.

He directed Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino,
Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri, George Arliss, Norma Talmadge, Richard Barthelmess… A host of stars.

He is Sidney Olcott: "The great forgotten man in the history of cinema", in the words of Jean Mitry.

New Two new videos of Olcott's films released in 1914 and 1915... A lot of photos of The Ghost of the Twisted Oaks... A photo of A Mother of Men and In the Hand of the Brute... Nan, The Girl Spy (1909) in vidéo... A Photo of A Sawmill Hero (1911) en vidéo... A Swedish poster for *The Amateur Gentleman*... A photo of Cesare Gravina in *Scratch My Back*... *Ranson's Folly* on video... *Little Old New York* in color... *The Humming Bird* in Dutch on video... A photo of *The White Black Sheep*... Two photos of Monsieur Beaucaire, one from *The Only Woman* and one from *Diplomacy*... The poster for *Navajo’s Bride*... A video about Valentine Grant... Two photos from *Little Old New York* and one from *The White Black Sheep*... Olcott’s “Irish” films in color... The posters for *When Men Would Kill* and *A Daughter of the Confederacy*... Olcott’s Irish film, now completely forgotten... A short video on Robert Henderson-Bland, Olcott’s “Christ”... *Timothy’s Quest on video... A video about *The Kerry Gow* and *The Fishermaid of Ballydavid*... The year 1926 on video... A postcard of *From Manger to Cross*... Videos of the films from 1910, 1924, and 1925... *The Adoration of the Magi* on a postcard... Videos of the 1915 and 1921 films... New photos from *Scratch My Back*...


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