Olaf—An Atom
{{short description|1913 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Olaf—An Atom
| image = The Wanderer poster.jpg
| caption = Aywon Film Corporation re-release poster
for the film, retitled The Wanderer
| director = Anthony O'Sullivan
| writer = William E. Wing
| starring = Harry Carey
| cinematography = G. W. Bitzer
| studio = Biograph Company
| released = {{film date|1913|5|19}}
| runtime = 17 minutes (16 frame/s)
1,003 feet
| country = United States
| language = Silent with English intertitles
}}
Olaf—An Atom is a 1913 American film directed by Anthony O'Sullivan and featuring Harry Carey.
Plot
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby. Olaf is able to return her kindness when he overhears a plot to rob the settlers of their home. He alerts the couple and delays the would-be thieves long enough for the husband to file a claim on his land. Olaf is injured by the claim jumpers but he recovers, alone and forgotten by those he has helped. He then moves aimlessly along.
Cast
- Harry Carey as Olaf{{cite magazine |date=September 1913 |title=Answers to Inquiries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5jAXAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA140 |magazine=The Motion Picture Story Magazine |page=140 |access-date=December 3, 2016 }}
- Kate Bruce as Olaf's Mother{{cite book |last=Graham |first=Cooper C. |date=1985 |title=D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company |location=Metuchen, N.J. |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=181 |isbn=9780810818064 }}
- Charles Hill Mailes as A Parent{{cite magazine |date=May 31, 1913 |title=Comments on the Films |url=https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor16newy#page/918/mode/1up |magazine=The Moving Picture World |page=919 |access-date=December 3, 2016 }}
- Claire McDowell as A Parent
- Donald Crisp as The Beggar
- Frank Evans as The Blacksmith
- John T. Dillon as The Claim Jumper
- Thomas Jefferson as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
Production
Directed by Anthony O'Sullivan and written by William E. Wing, Olaf—An Atom was produced by the Biograph Company and released May 19, 1913, in the United States.{{cite magazine |date=May 17, 1913 |title=Calendar of Licensed Releases |url=https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor16newy#page/720/mode/1up/ |magazine=The Moving Picture World |access-date=December 3, 2016 }}{{cite book |last=Katchmer |first=Gerald A. |date=1991 |title=Eighty Silent Film Stars |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWlZAAAAMAAJ&q=Olaf%E2%80%94An+Atom |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=210 |isbn=9780899504940}} The drama was released August 4, 1913, in the United Kingdom.{{cite magazine |date=July 2, 1913 |title=Supplement to The Cinema |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433014372209;view=1up;seq=108 |magazine=The Cinema News and Property Gazette |page=100 |access-date=December 3, 2016 }}
The film was retitled The Wanderer and re-released by the Aywon Film Corporation, a New York City company formed in early 1919. Aywon reissued films including the Biograph Company short films, which were often lengthened by the addition of intertitles.{{cite book |last=Slide |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Slide |date=2001 |orig-year=1998 |title=The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnzsAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=17 |isbn=9781578860159 }}
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0003228|title=Olaf—An Atom}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw1yUHy0Yfo Film] at YouTube, with title card from the unrelated 1913 film
- [https://archive.org/details/PreviewTheWanderer Excerpt] at the Internet Archive
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Category:1910s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent short films
Category:Biograph Company films