''The Colleen Bawn'' is a silent 1911 American romantic drama film based on the
1860 play of the same name. A secret marriage leads to murder. It and the play are based on the actual 1819 murder of 15-year-old
Ellen Scanlan
Ellen Scanlon, born Ellen Hanley, was an Irish murder victim. Born to a Limerick farming family in 1803, her murder at age 15 became the subject of books, plays, films, songs, and an opera, using the nickname given to her locally, "the Colleen B ...
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Prints of this film survive in the
National Archives of Canada
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, and the
George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection
The George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York comprises about 28,000 titles, including features, shorts, documentaries, newsreels, and experimental moving images. The collection is renowned for its holdings of silent f ...
has one reel.
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Cast
Production
The film was shot in Beaufort, County Kerry
Beaufort () is a small village that lies on the banks of the River Laune in County Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland. It consists of a post office, three public houses, one supermarket, parish hall, guest houses and thirty private houses. As ...
, Ireland, during the summer of 1911.
References
* Michel Derrien, ''Aux origines du cinéma irlandais: Sidney Olcott, le premier oeil'', TIR 2013.
* Denis Condon,
Touristic Work and Pleasure: The Kalem Company in Killarney
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* Denis Condon,
Limelight on the Colleen Bawn: Resisting Autoexoticism in Provincial Irish Picture Houses in the Early 1910s
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External links
*
Full restored film
at YouTube
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''The Colleen Bawn''
website dedicated to Sidney Olcott
American crime films
American romantic drama films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Crime films based on actual events
American films based on plays
Films directed by Sidney Olcott
Films set in Ireland
Films shot in Ireland
Kalem Company films
Romantic drama films based on actual events
1911 romantic drama films
1911 films
1910s American films
Silent romantic drama films
Silent American drama films
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