J. Stuart Blackton Movies

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the...

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor...

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with...

silent western

The Passionate Quest is a 1926 American drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Marian Constance Blackton. It is based on the 1924...

Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a...

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the...

Lupin is the lover of Joan of the Apaches. She is attracted by Paul de Gafilet, nobleman and sculptor. She visits him in his studio and resolves to...

King Henry VIII smitten with Anne Boleyn wishes to displace his estimable Queen Catherine for her. He appeals to Cardinal Wolsey to set aside the...

In a charming dining room a very attractive young lady is seen seated at the table, evidently waiting for the caller who is to share a quiet little...

"Down goes the Spanish flag, and up floats the Stars and Stripes. Down falls the symbol of tyranny and oppression that has ruled in the new world for...

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show...

A young Englishman falls in love with the children's governess in his step-sister's home. His step-sister, however, cannot abide the class...

The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central...