SF Film Preserve: Early Irish Films

Hosted by SFFP Executive Director Kathy Rose O’Regan and Consulate General of Ireland San Francisco Cultural Officer Elizabeth Creely.

With live traditional Irish musical accompaniment by
Cormac Gannon and Kyle Alden.

San Francisco Film Preserve (SFFP) and the Consulate General of Ireland are delighted to present a celebration of early Irish cinema, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day! This program highlights two recent restorations —You Remember Ellen, filmed in Ireland by the so-called “O’Kalem” company in 1912, and The Gault Collection, an incredibly rare ethnographic collection shot on the Irish coast in the mid 1920s. SFFP Executive Director Kathy Rose O’Regan undertook the digital restoration of both of these titles. She will discuss the restoration process and contextualize the importance of these titles within Irish cinematic history in a pre-screening introduction and post-screening Q&A.

You Remember Ellen
(11 mins)
Directed by Sidney Olcott
1912
DCP
United States/Ireland

The Gault Collection
(27 mins)
Directed by Benjamin True Gault
1926-26
DCP
United States/Ireland