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Ben Hur is a 1907 American silent drama film set in ancient Rome, the first screen adaptation of Lew Wallace's popular 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Co-directed by Sidney Olcott and Frank Oakes Rose, this " photoplay " was produced by the Kalem Company of New York City, and its scenes, including the climactic chariot race, were ...
December 7 – First Ben-Hur film, directed by Sidney Olcott and produced by the Kalem Company, released. Carl Laemmle, later of Universal, experiments with combining audio from phonographs with film. Laemmle's experiments lead to the German development of "Syncroscope." Syncroscope had several successful demonstrations, but was eventually ...
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Full film; runtime 02:20:52. Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ had been a great success as a novel, and was adapted into a stage play which ran for twenty-five years. In 1922, two years after the play's last tour, the Goldwyn company purchased the film rights to Ben-Hur. The play's producer, Abraham Erlanger, put a heavy price on the screen rights.
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After making a number of very successful films for the Kalem studio, including Ben Hur (1907) with its dramatic chariot race scene, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908), [4] Olcott became the company's president and was rewarded with one share of its stock. In 1910, Olcott went to Ireland where he made a film called A Lad from Old Ireland.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, an 1880 novel by American general and author Lew Wallace Ben-Hur (play) , a play that debuted on Broadway in 1899 Ben Hur (1907 film) , a one-reel silent film adaptation produced by Kalem Studios of New York
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Amateur Night; or, Get the Hook: Ben Hur: Sidney Olcott: William S. Hart: Historical: Daniel Boone: Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter: William Craven, Florence Lawrence