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The O’Kalem
Collection:
1910-1915
(1910-2011)

Contents: The Lad from Old Ireland (1910) [two versions], Rory O’More (1911), The Colleen Bawn (1911), You Remember Ellen (1912), His Mother (1912) [two versions], For Ireland’s Sake (1914), Come Back to Erin (1914), Bold Emmett, Ireland’s Martyr (1915) and Blazing the Trail: The O’Kalems in Ireland (2011).

Irish Film Institute
2011 DVD edition

The O’Kalem Collection: 1910-1915 (1910-2011), black & white and color, 295 minutes total, BBFC Classification E,
including The Lad from Old Ireland (1910) [USA version], black & white, 14 minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Lad from Old Ireland (1910) [German version], black & white, 14 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Rory O’More (1911), black & white, 13 minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Colleen Bawn (1911), black & white, 42 minutes, BBFC Classification E, You Remember Ellen (1912), black & white, 14 minutes, BBFC Classification E, His Mother (1912) [USA version], black & white, 11 minutes, BBFC Classification E, His Mother (1912) [Dutch version], black & white, 11 minutes, BBFC Classification E, For Ireland’s Sake (1914), black & white, 38 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Come Back to Erin (1914), black & white, 13 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Bold Emmett, Ireland’s Martyr (1915), black & white, 36 minutes, BBFC Classification E, and Blazing the Trail: The O’Kalems in Ireland (2011), color and black & white, 86 minutes, BBFC Classification E.

Irish Film Institute, IFIDVD4, unknown UPC number.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 [short films] and 16:9 anamorphic [documentary] (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; 20-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €19.99.
Release date: 2011.
Country of origin: Ireland

This NTSC DVD collection of short film productions shot abroad in Ireland by the American film company Kalem Film Manufacturing Company and others presents those films that have survived.

A feature-length documentary on the American Irish film productions, Blazing the Trail, is included as supplemental material.

The film are presented with improvised music scores played on piano by Peter Freisinger, with additional violin by Klaudia Szlachta.

While released in Europe, North American collectors WILL NOT need a region-free DVD player to view this Region 0 NTSC edition.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition is . . .