The Octoroon (1909 film)

The Octoroon
The Octoroon
Directed by	Sidney Olcott
Produced by	Sidney Olcott
Production; company	Kalem Company
Distributed by	General Film Company
Release date	January 29, 1909;
Running time	835 ft
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film ; (English intertitles)

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The Octoroon is a 1909 American silent film produced by Kalem Company and directed by Sidney Olcott, shot in Florida.

Production notes

The film was shot in Jacksonville,^[1] Florida.

Other title : A Story of the Turpentine Forest

Bibliography

The Moving Picture World vol 4 n°1, p 11; p 533.
The New York Dramatic Mirror, 1909, January 9, p 9; January 16, p 7.

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References

↑ The Moving Picture World, Vol 4, n°1, p 533

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[1] The Moving Picture World, Vol 4, n°1, p 533

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1908	Days of '61 Back to Farm Mountainers Dogs of Fashion Quack Doctors Under the Star Splanged Banner Evangeline The Stowanay College Days The Banan'Man Henry Hudson Way Down East Washington at Valley Forge The Scarlet Letter Captain Kid The Moonshiner's Daughter Night Riders The Under Dog Legend of Sleepy Hollow Kidnapped for Hate Dolly the Circus Queen The White Squaw Man The Man Hunt Enoch Arden Lady Audley's Secret Held by Bandits The Little Madcap Mrs Gunness, the Female Bluebeard Dynamite Man The Renegade The New Hired Girl A Gipsy Girl's Love The Walls of Sing Sing The Girl Nihilist Robin Hood The Frontiersman's Bride As You Like It The Great Yellowstone Park Hold Up The Old Sleuth Detective The Padrone The Mystery of the Bride in White The Girl I Left Behind Me Caught in the Web The Half Breed Jerusalem in the Time of Christ David and Goliath Fire at Sea Humpty Dumpty Circus The Railroad Detective Hannah Dustin A Ragged Hero Maggie, the Dock Rat For Love of Country The Molly Maguires Red Cloud Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1909	The Trail of the White Man A Florida Feud The Girl at the Old Mill The Octoroon The Detectives of the Italian Bureau The High Diver Sporting Days in the South The Making of a Champion Pugilist The New Minister The Old Soldier's Story The Seminomle's Vengeance The Crackers Bride Hungry Hank's Hallucination The Mysterious Double The Fish Pirates The Orange Grower's Daughter The Northern Schoolmaster The Artist and the Girl Love's Triumph Good for Evil The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War A Poor Wife's Devotion A Pig in a Poke A Child of the Sea The Omnibus Taxiclub $5000 Reward The Little Angel of Roaring Springs The Mystic Swing A Priest of the Wilderness Mardi Gras in Havana The Japanese Invasion Famine in the Forest A Soldier of US Army The Escape from Andersonville The Tom-Boy Tickle Mary Factory Girl Traced by Kodak Out of Work The Queen of the Quarry The Conspirators - An Incident of a South American Revolution The Pay Car Hiram's Bride The Story of a Rose Winning a Diner The Winning Boat The Mystery of Sleeper Trunk The Hand Organ Man The Man and the Girl A Brother's Wrong The Girl Scout The Cattle Thieves Dora Pale Face's Wooing The Governor's Daughter Judgement The Geisha Who Saved Japan Rally 'Round the Flag The Law of the Mountains The Card Board Baby A Slave to Drink
1910	The Deacon's Daughter The Romance of a Trained Nurse The Man Who Lost The Step-Mother The Confederate Spy The Feud The Fisherman's Granddaughter The Miser's Child The Girl Thief Her Soldier Sweetheart The Seminole's Trust The Girl and the Bandit The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy The Old Fiddler The Forager The Bravest Girl of the South The Sacred Turquoise of the Zuni The Love Romance of the Girl Spy The Egret Hunter Between Love and Duty The Aztec Sacrifice The Seminole Halfbreeds The Cliff Dwellers Friends The Castaways The Wanderers The Navajo's Bride The Miner's Sacrifice Grandmother A Daughter of Dixie A Colonial Belle The Perversity of Fate The Cow Puncher's Sweetheart Leap for Life The Conspiracy of Pontiac The Heart of Edna Leslie The Way of Life The Lad from Old Ireland Seth's Temptation The Little Spreewald Maiden When Lovers Part The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg The Stranger
1911	For the Love of an Enemy The Secret of the Still Her Chum's Brother The Little Sister Grandmother's War Story The Open Road Sailor Jack's Reformation The Irish Honeymoon The Diver A War Time Escape A Sawmill Hero The Lass Who Couldn't Forget By a Woman's Wit In Old Florida The Fiddle's Requiem When the Dead Return The Carnival In Blossom Time Tangled Lives The Railroad Raiders of '62 The Little Soldier of '64 To the Aid of Stonewall Jackson Hubby's Day at Home The Colonel's Son The Romance of a Dixie Belle Special Messenger Rory O'More Losing to Win The Colleen Bawn The Fishermaid of Ballydavid Among the Irish Fisher Folk The Franciscan Friars of Killarney Arrah-na-Pogue
1912	Driving Home the Cows A Southern Boy of '61 The O'Neill His Mother The O'Kalems Visit Killarney The Vagabonds Far From Erin's Isle You Remember Ellen A Visit to Madeira The Kalemites Visit Gibraltar Along the Mediterranean The Potters of the Nile American Tourists Abroad Egypt the Mysterious Egypt as it Was in the Time of Moses The Fighting Dervishes of the Desert Luxor Egypt Missionaries in Darkest Africa Making Photoplays in Egypt A Pet of the Cairo Zoo An Arabian Tragedy Captured by Bedouins Tragedy of the Desert Winning a Widow Egyptian Sports A Prisoner of the Harem Easter Celebration at Jerusalem Palestine From Jerusalem to the Dead Sea Down Through the Ages The Ancient Port of Jaffa Along the River Nile Ancient Temples of Egypt The Poacher's Pardon From the Manger To the Cross The Kerry Gow The Mayor From Ireland Conway, the Kerry Dancer Ireland, the Oppressed The Shaughraun
1913–1916	The Wives of Jamestown (1913) The Lady Peggy's Escape (1913) A Daughter of the Confederacy (1913) The Mystery of Pine Creek Camp (1913) When Men Hate (1913) In the Power of the Hypnotist (1913) In the Clutches of the Ku Klux Klan (1913) For Ireland's Sake (1914) Come Back to Erin (1914) When Men Would Kill (1914) In the Hands of a Brute (1914) The Eye of the Government (1914) A Mother of Men (1914) The Idle Rich (1914) Tricking the Government (1914) The Little Rebel (1914) The Moth and the Flame (1915) All for Old Ireland (1915) Bold Emmett Ireland's Martyr (1915) The Seven Sisters (1915) The Irish in America (1915) Nan O' the Backwoods (1915) Madame Butterfly (1915) The Ghost of Twisted Oaks (1915) The Taint (1915) Poor Little Peppina (1916) My Lady Incog (1916) Diplomacy (1916) The Innocent Lie (1916) The Smugglers (1916) The Daughter of MacGregor (1916)
1918–1927	The Belgian (1918) Marriage for Convenience (1919) Scratch My Back (1920) The Right Way (1921) God's Country and the Law (1921) Pardon My French (1921) Timothy's Quest (1922) The Green Goddess (1923) Little Old New York (1923) The Humming Bird (1924) Monsieur Beaucaire (1924) The Only Woman (1924) Salome of the Tenements (1925) The Charmer (1925) Not So Long Ago (1925) The Best People (1925) The White Black Sheep (1926) Ranson's Folly (1926) The Amateur Gentleman (1926) The Claw (1927)