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 ...

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 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.

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, ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: John Stuart Blackton is a Director for the Strategic Advisory Services with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2004 Forum. Appearances by ...

James Stuart Blackton was a pioneer Anglo-American filmmaker and can be credited with the first feature-length American production. He founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897 and was among the first ...

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 ...

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, ...