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- James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 - August 13, 1941), usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation. Considered the father of American Animation.
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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 motion pictures, he founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897.
- James Stuart Blacktin, January 5, 1875, Sheffield, England
- Vitagraph Studios
- 4, including Marian Constance Blackton
- Cornell Woolrich (son-in-law)
Born. January 5, 1875 · Sheffield, Yorkshire [now South Yorkshire], England, UK. Died. August 13, 1941 · Los Angeles, California, USA (hit by a bus) Birth name. James Stuart Blackton. Mini Bio. In the US from the age of 10, he first worked as a journalist-illustrator for the New York World.
- January 5, 1875
- August 13, 1941
American cartoonist, conjurer, filmmaker. J. Stuart Blackton was born in Sheffield on 5 January 1875; his parents emigrated to the USA when the boy was ten. A natural talent for drawing found him a place on the staff of the New York World, writing and drawing a regular illustrated feature on personalities in the news.
James Stuart Blackton was born in Sheffield on 5 January 1875, but while a child left England for America. He worked as a journalist and illustrator in New York, where he interviewed Thomas Edison, who was impressed enough with his drawings to make a cartoon film: Blackton the Evening World Cartoonist (1896). Blackton bought a Kinetoscope from ...
J. Stuart Blackton. Director: The Glorious Adventure. In the US from the age of 10, he first worked as a journalist-illustrator for the New York World. Interviewing Thomas A. Edison, he so impressed the inventor with his drawings that Edison suggested he allow some of them to be photographed by the Kinetograph camera.
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
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Aug 8, 2020 · Before Walt Disney, there was James Stuart Blackton, the British-American pioneer of hand-drawn animation that revolutionized the film industry.
James Stuart Blackton was a British-American film producer and director of the silent era. One of the pioneers of motion pictures, he founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897. He was one of the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation, is considered a father of American animation, and was the first to bring many ...
