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4, including Marian Constance Blackton. Relatives. Cornell Woolrich (son-in-law) 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. He was one of the first filmmakers to use the techniques ...
- James Stuart Blacktin, January 5, 1875, Sheffield, England
- Vitagraph Studios
- 4, including Marian Constance Blackton
- Cornell Woolrich (son-in-law)
Distributed by. Blackton/Rose Pictures. Release date. 23 January 1923. Country. United Kingdom. Languages. Silent English intertitles. The Virgin Queen is a 1923 British silent historical film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Diana Manners, Carlyle Blackwell and Walter Tennyson.
- J. Stuart Blackton Productions
- J. Stuart Blackton
- 23 January 1923
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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 ...
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. 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.
J. Stuart Blackton. Director: The Glorious Adventure. 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 "New ...
- January 5, 1875
- August 13, 1941
1:30. Country. United States. Languages. Silent film. English intertitles. 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.
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.
