James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941) was a British-American film producer and director of the silent era. One of the pioneers of...
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Stop motion (section J. Stuart Blackton)
The Sculptor's Nightmare (6 May 1908) by Wallace McCutcheon Sr. J. Stuart Blackton's The Haunted Hotel (23 February 1907) featured a combination of live-action...
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America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American...
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History of animation (section J. Stuart Blackton)
probably made in imitation of similar Western printed film strips. J. Stuart Blackton was a British-American filmmaker, co-founder of the Vitagraph Studios...
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The Enchanted Drawing (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
directed by J. Stuart Blackton. It is best known for containing the first animated sequences recorded on standard picture film, which has led Blackton to be...
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1909 in film (section J. Stuart Blackton)
Night's Dream, directed by Charles Kent and J. Stuart Blackton Les Misérables, directed by J. Stuart Blackton. A proto-feature film, or many short-films...
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The Automobile Thieves (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
is an American crime-drama silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton. The picture stars Blackton and Florence Lawrence. It was released on November 10...
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The Passionate Quest (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
Quest is a 1926 American drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Marian Constance Blackton. It is based on the 1924 novel The Passionate...
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The Haunted Hotel (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
American silent comic trick film written, produced, and directed by J. Stuart Blackton. One of the oldest surviving animated films, it combines live action...
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Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
The Smoke Fairy is a 1909 five-minute silent trick film directed by J. Stuart Blackton. In the film, a smoker (Paul Panzer) falls asleep and is visited by...
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The Airship, or 100 Years Hence (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
silent short film written, produced and directed by J. Stuart Blackton. The film stars Blackton and Florence Lawrence. It was released on April 25, 1908...
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The Message of the Mouse (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
Mouse is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton, written by Edward J. Montagne, George Randolph Chester, and Lillian Chester...
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The Common Cause (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
and produced by J. Stuart Blackton and distributed by Vitagraph Company of America. It is based on a play, Getting Together, by Ian Hay, J. Hartley Manners...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909 film) (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
Night's Dream is a 1909 American film directed by Charles Kent and J. Stuart Blackton, and starring Walter Ackerman and Charles Chapman. It was the first...
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The Judgment House (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by J. Stuart Blackton based upon the novel by Gilbert Parker. The film...
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and producer J. Stuart Blackton. They had two children, Violet Virginia Blackton (Mrs Woolrich; 1910–1965) and Charles Stuart Blackton (1914–2007), both...
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The American (1927 film) (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
Flag Maker, is a lost 1927 American silent Western film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Bessie Love and Charles Ray. It was based on the short...
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1900 in film (section J)
by Walter R. Booth – (GB) The Clown and the Alchemist, directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith – (US) Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage), directed...
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drama film directed by James Young and written by Mary Augusta Ward, J. Stuart Blackton, and James Young. The film stars Thomas Meighan, Sylvia Breamer, Robert...
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producer J. Stuart Blackton and his wife, Isabelle Mabel MacArthur. Her siblings include filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton Jr., actor Charles Stuart Blackton (half-brother)...
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The Humpty Dumpty Circus (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
Dumpty Circus is a lost short stop-motion trick film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith, the Anglo-American founders of Vitagraph Studios...
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surname include: J. Stuart Blackton (1875–1941), English-American film producer, considered the "father of American animation" Paula Blackton (1881–1930),...
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The Thieving Hand (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
No director is credited in the film. While some sources say it was J. Stuart Blackton, other sources say the director is unknown. A one-armed street peddler...
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The Virgin Queen (1923 film) (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
Virgin Queen is a 1923 British silent historical film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Diana Manners, Carlyle Blackwell and Walter Tennyson...
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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
American lost silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and William P. S. Earle, and written by Blackton, Helmer W. Bergman, and Cyrus Townsend Brady...
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Les Misérables (1909 film) (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
stars Maurice Costello and William V. Ranous. It was directed by J. Stuart Blackton. Distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America, the film consists...
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Romeo and Juliet (1908 film) (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
silent film short made in 1908 made by Vitagraph Studios. Directed by J. Stuart Blackton, it was filmed at Bethesda Terrace in Manhattan, New York. The film...
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The Beloved Brute (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
Beloved Brute is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Marguerite De La Motte, Victor McLaglen, and William...
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wife was former actress Evangeline Russell Blackton, the widow of Vitagraph executive J. Stuart Blackton. She died in 1966. The Law Decides co-directed...
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Little Nemo (1911) and How a Mosquito Operates (1912). The American J. Stuart Blackton and the French Émile Cohl had experimented with animation even earlier;...
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