Sidney Olcott
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Sidney Olcott was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.
Olcott in 1922
Olcott's grave in Toronto, Ontario
Kalem Company
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The Kalem Company was an early American film studio founded in New York City in 1907. It was one of the first companies to make films abroad and to set up winter production facilities, first in Florida and then in California. Kalem was sold to Vitagraph Studios in 1917.
Poster for the American drama film Our New Minister (1913) with Joseph Conyers, Tom Moore, and Alice Joyce.
The winter studios of the Kalem Company showing outbuildings on the grounds of the Roseland Hotel on the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, Florida. The cannons were used in Kalem's Civil War-themed productions like The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg and The Confederate Ironclad.
The Kalem troupe in Ireland, 1911