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The Colleen Bawn (1911 American film)

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'The Colleen Bawn' is a silent 1911 American romantic drama film based on the 1860 play of the same name. A secret marriage leads to murder. It and the play are based on the actual 1819 murder of 15-year-old Ellen Scanlan.

Prints of this film survive in the National Archives of Canada, and the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection has one reel.

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The film was shot in Beaufort, County Kerry, Ireland, during the summer of 1911.

References



* Michel Derrien, 'Aux origines du cinma irlandais: Sidney Olcott, le premier oeil', TIR 2013.

* Denis Condon, '[http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/4592/1/DC_Checked.pdf Touristic Work and Pleasure: The Kalem Company in Killarney]'

* Denis Condon, '[http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/4594/1/DC_Colleen_Bawn.pdf Limelight on the Colleen Bawn: Resisting Autoexoticism in Provincial Irish Picture Houses in the Early 1910s]'


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