In 1910 the New York based Kalem Film Company made history by sending its leading filmmakers-director Sidney Olcott and screenwriter and lead actress Gene Gauntier-to County Kerry, to Ireland. While there, Olcott and Gauntier made The Lad from Old Ireland, the first fiction film to be made in Ireland and the first American film made outside the continental U.S. The film was an immediate hit and Olcott and Gauntier returned to Ireland again and again over the next several years, maintaining a base in the town of Beaufort, near Killarney. Known to the public as the "O'Kalems," they produced a series of groundbreaking films-rebel dramas, folk romances, tales of exile and emigration-celebrated for their authentic Irish settings and unrivaled in their use of scenery
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