Sidney Olcott certainly got around for Kalem in the 1910s. Having made a number of films for the studio in Ireland, he then travelled to the Holy Land to make this feature-length recreation of the life of Jesus. It was a huge hit in 1912, but looks very stagey compared to the work of other filmmakers of the era. The heavy use of lines from the bible to introduce each scene to come also feels unduly cumbersome.
Review of From the Manger to the Cross
