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Comments The 1912 Irish short film "His Mother" is now available on the Irish Film Institute's IFIPlayer. Directed by Sidney Alcott and produced by The Kalem Film Company of America, "His Mother" opens with a wealthy American tourist couple happening upon a talented violinist, Terence, and his mother in a small cottage in rural Ireland. Read more Terence grasps the opportunity and, thanks to his mother’s meager savings, leaves his peasant roots in Ireland for the bright lights of the New York stage. He thrives in New York society but, back in Ireland, his pining mother is encouraged...

At the dawn of American cinema, when most film companies were already heading west to Hollywood, one company traveled east – to Ireland. The little-known story of the Kalem Company, or “The O’Kalems,” as they were fondly called, is the subject of a new collection from the Irish Film Archive. A steam engine chugs into a small railway station in Ireland and a handsome, well-dressed man steps onto the platform, looking around him. He confers with a train conductor for directions, and we soon see that he has hitched a ride in a one-horse cart, and is traveling along a country road with a ...