Alice Calhoun: Silent Screen Star

Last September at the Charleston Scottish Festival we had the pleasure of meeting Sue Gilbert who is writing a book on her relative, Alice Calhoun. This is a brochure Sue produced to pass out at events like the Scottish Festival.





The Alice Calhoun website is here.

Alice made movies during my favorite time period in history. For some reason I became enamored with The Roaring Twenties when I was a preteen, then enjoyed learning more about the time periods before (like WWI) and after the '20's (finding out what happened to the people who lived in this era). This may explain why I initially became so interested in Sir Iain Colquhoun.
I fixed up a way to watch an Alice Calhoun movie at the clan tent. I use a portable DVD player connected to a marine battery with aligator clips and an auto cigarette lighter connection available at Radio Shack.
The deep cycle marine battery will last all weekend. I also have a DVD of the Colquhoun history sold at Friends of Loch Lomond.
I found an original photo signed by Alice on e bay.
The silent movie and the FofLL history were on VHS tapes, so I did have to copy them onto a DVD disc using a recorder. Something else I have on DVD are two silent newsreels



of Sir Iain downloaded from British Pathe and transferred to a disc. These newsreels were almost surely originally produced with a narration.
I also keep on hand some general histories of Scotland recorded off The History Channel, but these usually don't get played too much. The tent pictures were taken just this past weekend at the Savannah Scottish Games.