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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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated...
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The Enchanted Drawing (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
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 considered...
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film medium. He claimed to be the first to make such films, though James Stuart Blackton and Émile Cohl were among those who preceded him. The short's four...
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American. He founded Vitagraph Studios with his business partner James Stuart Blackton in 1897. Smith was born 4 June 1874 or 1875 in Faversham, Kent....
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Nevil Maskelyne, and the American cinematographers Billy Bitzer, James Stuart Blackton and Edwin S. Porter. In the first years of film, especially between...
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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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animated films, such as The Enchanted Drawing by James Stuart Blackton and his partner, Alfred E. Smith. Blackton's Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) was...
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Macbeth (1908 film) (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
Macbeth is a silent 1908 American film directed by James Stuart Blackton based on the William Shakespeare play of the same name. It is the second known...
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2022-08-14. "Blackton Hits Spoor Claims". Hollywood Vagabond. Vol. 2, no. 2. October 6, 1927. p. 1. Dewey, Donald (April 15, 2016). Buccaneer: James Stuart Blackton...
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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 Quest...
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ISBN 978-0-226-32902-4. Dewey, Donald (2016-04-15). Buccaneer: James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-4259-3...
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the Vitagraph Studios under the supervision of animation pioneer James Stuart Blackton. During the live-action portion of the film, McCay bets his colleagues...
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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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2018 – via Google Books. Dewey, Donald (2016-04-15). Buccaneer: James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 150–151...
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make animated cartoons", though he was preceded by others such as James Stuart Blackton and Émile Cohl. McCay made four thousand drawings on rice paper...
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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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The American (1927 film) (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
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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The Life of Moses (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
The Life of Moses is a 1909 American silent epic film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Pat Hartigan, Julia Arthur and William J. Humphrey. A...
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The Battle Cry of Peace (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
is a 1915 American silent war film directed by Wilfrid North and J. Stuart Blackton, one of the founders of Vitagraph Company of America who also wrote...
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man in the world to make animated cartoons", though the American James Stuart Blackton and the French Émile Cohl were among those who had made earlier...
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greenplanetfilms. Retrieved 2024-02-25. Dewey, Donald. Buccaneer: James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Munden...
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The Glorious Adventure (1922 film) (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
Adventure is a 1922 British Prizmacolor silent feature film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Felix Orman. The film's sets were designed by Walter...
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Live. Retrieved 15 November 2023. Dewey, Donald (2016). Buccaneer: James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield....
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film is an adaptation of the cartoon Happy Hooligan, played by J. Stuart Blackton. The Happy Hooligan films were a series of live-action comedy shorts...
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Hell-Bent for Heaven (category Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
1926 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Marian Constance Blackton. It is based on the 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Retrieved February 23, 2013. Dewey, Donald (April 15, 2016). Buccaneer: James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 218....
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cash prize. In 1912 the award was disputed when James A. Pugh contested the win by J. Stuart Blackton. He argued that Baby Reliance II was allowed a late...
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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 (in...
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Who's Who of Victorian Cinema (co-written with Richard Brown). James Stuart Blackton; Who's Who of Victorian Cinema. Walter Booth; Who's Who of Victorian...
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