Movie pioneer J. Stuart Blackton produced the first animated movie, the first propaganda film and possibly the first full-length feature. He hobnobbed with presidents, generals and celebrities ...

The opening title, animated with bits of paper, repeats a trick seen the previous year in Edison films. J. Stuart Blackton had in 1897 co-founded the Vitagraph Company, producer of the film.

Meet Silent Movie Original James Stuart Blackton of Cove NeckOyster Bay Historical Society Executive Director Phillip Blocklyn had two aces up his sleeve that made the opening of the new exhibit ...

The first ever stop-motion animated film was made by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith between 1897 and 1898, “The Humpty Dumpty Circus.” Though the film is lost to history, ...

This 1923 compound in West Los Angeles has a footnote in cinema history. Among early residents were J. Stuart Blackton, a pioneering force in motion pictures, and his fourth wife, actress ...

This studio was built by J. Stuart Blackton, a former partner of Thomas Edison, in 1906 and was once the largest producer of motion pictures in the United States. It was later sold to Warner ...

The first ever stop-motion animated film was made by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith between 1897 and 1898, “The Humpty Dumpty Circus.” Though the film is lost to history, ...