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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)
The Enchanted Drawing is a 1900 silent trick film directed 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 the father of American animation.
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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture film.
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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.
Mini Bio. J. Stuart Blackton came to the US with his family from Sheffield, England, in 1885 at age 10, settling in New York. He became friends with Albert E. Smith - who later became his business partner and headed Vitagraph Studios - in 1894 and they started a short-lived vaudeville act together. Blackton went to work as a reporter for the ...
- January 5, 1875
- August 13, 1941
Who's Who of Victorian Cinema. ( 1875-1941) James Stuart Blackton. 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.
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).
