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Retired journalist. Great lover of history and cinema. Creator of the website www.sidneyolcott.com, dedicated to a film pioneer who made the first "Ben Hur" (1908); the first American film shot abroad "The Lad From Old Ireland" (1910); the first American feature film "From the Manger to the Cross" (1912), the life and death of Jesus Christ, filmed in Egypt and Palestine. In front of his camera were Mary Pickford, George Arliss, Marion Davies, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Norma Talmadge, Pola Negri, Richard Barthelmess...
Retired journalist. Great lover of history and cinema. Creator of the website www.sidneyolcott.com, dedicated to a film pioneer who made the first "Ben Hur" (1908); the first American film shot abroad "The Lad From Old Ireland" (1910); the first American feature film "From the Manger to the Cross" (1912), the life and death of Jesus Christ, filmed in Egypt and Palestine. In front of his camera were Mary Pickford, George Arliss, Marion Davies, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Norma Talmadge, Pola Negri, Richard Barthelmess...
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