You Remember Ellen
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{{infobox film
| name = You Remember Ellen
| image = You_Remember_Wiki.jpg
| caption = Advertising published in The Moving Picture World, Vol 11, p 654
| director = Sidney Olcott
| producer = Kalem Company
| writer = Gene Gauntier
| based_on = {{based on|poem You Remember Ellen|Thomas Moore}}
| starring = Jack J. Clark
Gene Gauntier
| distributor = General Film Company
| cinematography = George K. Hollister
| released = {{film date|1912|03|4}}
| runtime = 1028 ft
| country = United States
| language = Silent film
(English intertitles)
}}
You Remember Ellen is a 1912 American silent film produced by Kalem Company and distributed by General Films. It was directed by Sidney Olcott with Gene Gauntier and Jack J. Clark in the leading roles. It was one of more than a dozen films produced by the Kalem Company filmed in Ireland for American audiences.
Plot
The film is based on the poem You Remember Ellen by Thomas Moore, of which selected verses appear as intertitles in the film. Ellen is a young countrywoman who marries a traveling peasant named William. The couple leaves Ellen's home to seek their fortune elsewhere. Eventually they come upon a mansion, where William reveals that he is an aristocrat in disguise and they are Lord and Lady of Rosna Hall.{{cite web |date=November 9, 2011 |publisher=Trinity College, Dublin |url=http://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/silent/you-remember-ellen.php |title=Irish Silent Films |access-date=December 30, 2015 }}
Cast
- Gene Gauntier as Ellen
- Jack J. Clark as William
- Anna Clark as Ellen's Mother
- Alice Hollister as Jane
- Arthur Donaldson
- Robert Vignola
- J. P. McGowan
Production notes
The film was shot in Beaufort, County Kerry, Ireland, during summer of 1911.
References
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Further reading
- Michel Derrien, Aux origines du cinéma irlandais: Sidney Olcott, le premier oeil, TIR 2013. {{ISBN|978-2-917681-20-6}} {{in lang|fr}}
- Denis Condon, [http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/4592/1/DC_Checked.pdf Touristic Work and Pleasure: The Kalem Company in Killarney]
External links
- {{IMDb title|0364762}}
- {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.sidneyolcott.com/You_Remember_Ellen.htm You Remember Ellen] website dedicated to Sidney Olcott
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxJG-ybNsRs Full restored film] by Trinity College, Dublin on YouTube
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Category:1912 romantic drama films
Category:1910s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:English-language drama short films
Category:English-language romantic drama films
Category:Films shot in Ireland
Category:Short films directed by Sidney Olcott
Category:Silent American drama short films
Category:Silent American romantic drama films
Category:Surviving American silent films
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