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SF Film Preserve: Early Irish Films San Francisco Film Preserve (SFFP) and the Consulate General of Ireland are delighted to present a celebration of early Irish cinema, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day! This program highlights two…

📍 The Roxie Theater
📅 Thursday, March 12, 2026
⏰ 6:15 PM
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The evening will be hosted alongside Elizabeth Creely, Cultural Officer at the Consulate General of Ireland.

Featuring live traditional Irish musical accompaniment by Cormac Gannon and Kyle Alden.

Two silent-era treasures. One night only.
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Both films were restored by San Francisco Film Preserve, and Executive Director Kathy Rose O’Regan will provide a pre-screening introduction on the restoration process and the films’ place in Irish cinematic history, followed by a post-screening Q&A.
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EARLY IRISH CINEMA
You Remember Ellen (1912, 11 min), directed by Sidney Olcott
The Gault Collection (1926, 27 min), directed by Benjamin True Gault
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Join us next Thursday for a special celebration of early Irish cinema—just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.

San Francisco Film Preserve and Consulate General of Ireland present two remarkable restorations:
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From early Irish cinema at the Roxie to international festival screenings, virtual talks, and a new edition of Online with SFFP, this month’s lineup moves from 1910s silent film to urgent conversations about film history and preservation.
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March at the San Francisco Film Preserve is here—our new events calendar has arrived.
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The idea that film history was worth preserving received wider acceptance in the 1920s, when some of the first archives entirely dedicated to the cinema emerged around the world. This presentation by Aurore Spiers, author of Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France, 1927–1978, will discuss Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France, 1927 - 1978 | Online with SFFP

The conversation highlights the many women who worked alongside Henri Langlois at the Cinémathèque française—including Musidora, Lotte Eisner, Marie Epstein, and Mary Meerson—whose vital contributions too often remained in his shadow.

Now available on demand: youtu.be/qUZ52MoNcxA...
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Film historian Aurore Spiers, author of Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France, 1927–1978, explores how women helped shape global film history—not only as filmmakers, but as archivists, memoirists, and activists determined to preserve and recover women’s work.
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February’s riveting edition of ONLINE WITH SFFP is now streaming!
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Screening — Early Irish Films at the Roxie - San Francisco Film Preserve Hosted by SFFP Executive Director Kathy Rose O’Regan and Consulate General of Ireland San Francisco Cultural Officer Elizabeth Creely. With live traditional Irish musical accompaniment by Cormac Gannon and Kyle […]

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Join us for a rare look at Ireland on film — as it was seen over a century ago.
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SFFP Executive Director Kathy Rose O’Regan will introduce the program and lead a post-screening Q&A on the restoration process and the films’ place in Irish cinematic history. The evening will feature live traditional Irish musical accompaniment by Cormac Gannon and Kyle Alden.
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• THE GAULT COLLECTION (1926, directed by Benjamin True Gault) — an extraordinarily rare ethnographic portrait of life along the Irish coast
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On March 12 at 6:15 PM at the Roxie Theater, SFFP and the Consulate General of Ireland San Francisco bring two remarkable restorations back to the big screen:

• YOU REMEMBER ELLEN (1912, directed by Sidney Olcott) — filmed in Ireland by the “O’Kalem” company
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✨ JUST ANNOUNCED: San Francisco Film Preserve presents “Early Irish Films” at the Roxie — a special St. Patrick’s season celebration of newly restored, silent Irish cinema. 🍀📽️
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Online with SFFP — Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France - San Francisco Film Preserve The idea that film history was worth preserving received wider acceptance in the 1920s, when some of the first archives entirely dedicated to the cinema emerged around the world. This […]

Drawing from her book Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France, 1927–1978, Spiers considers archivists, witnesses, and activists who resisted historical erasure and reshaped what counts as film history.

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Scholar Aurore Spiers examines the women who helped build global film history from within the archives, including Musidora, Lotte Eisner, Marie Epstein, and Mary Meerson—collaborators of Henri Langlois at the Cinémathèque française whose contributions were long overshadowed. 📽️
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Join us tomorrow at 12 pm PT for ONLINE WITH SFFP: “Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France.” 🎙️

Film preservation took institutional shape in the 1920s—but who did the work, and who got remembered?
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Tune in as she joins host Tristan Ettleman to make the case for the five best films of 1910 — from early Irish animation to canonical horror to the surprisingly modern spectacle of female boredom on screen. It’s a lively deep dive into a year that helped define what cinema could be.
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SFFP Executive Director Kathy Rose O’Regan is this week’s guest on the podcast The Five Best Films of Every Year Ever! 🎙️
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Drawing on rare garments and accessories, film clips, photographs, posters, and costume sketches, the exhibition reveals how silent film defined modern screen style.

Hosted by SFFP Board Secretary Victoria Jaschob.
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In this episode of ONLINE WITH SFFP, fashion historian and curator Michelle Tolini Finamore, Ph.D., previews Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film, the landmark exhibition opening in September 2026 at the Bard Graduate Center.
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When films were silent, fashion did the talking. “Goddesses in the Machine” explores how early Hollywood turned clothing into cinematic language—shaping character, desire, and the foundations of movie glamour.
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In the U.K. the restoration premier is at the BFI on Sunday with live accompaniment from Stephen Horne!

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🎬 Watch and enjoy THE GARDEN OF EDEN anytime on Valentine’s Day via this link: filmpreserve.org/res...
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To celebrate, we’re sharing the love: our restoration of THE GARDEN OF EDEN, featuring a gorgeous recorded score by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius, will be free to watch for one day only. And what better day than Valentine’s Day, given the film’s many romantic themes?
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