J. Stuart Blackton Movies

Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a...

Persons who have visited the "Hub," no doubt carried away with vivid recollections of Boston's famous system of Underground Transportation and this...

After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the Vitagraph Company as an actress. After waiting...

An item in the 24 Jul 1909 Moving Picture World called this film “a series of magic drawing executed by the fountain pen….[It] is...

A young couple conducts a series of robberies, followed by a chase, in which they are shot and killed.

The day before Christmas in a squalid tenement room shared by young sisters Nell and Bess, their brother Tom, and their 18-year-old sister Anne the...

A professor sprays people with 'galvanic fluid', and unleashes pent-up energy. Displays an early use of over-cranking and under-cranking.

Early short film dramatizing the biblical story of Jephthah (Judges 11).

The Astor Battery became famous after the Spanish-American war and these young men are on display in this Edison short, which was shot on Saturday,...

Sixth and final episode in the series of short films titled Paula Blackton's Country Life Stories.

James J. Jeffries throwing the medicine ball. An absolutely perfect picture of the champion heavyweight of the world.

An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.

Second of six installments in Paula Blackton's Country Life Stories series.

A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.

Frivolous Jasmine Grenfel is torn between the bold Rudyard Byng and the reserved Ian Stafford. Impulsively she marries Byng with the rejected...

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

Seref, who returns to his country after many years in America, as a dollar billionaire with a cowboy hat on his head, and with his Dallas-type boots...

This is a new adventure in which our friend, Mr. Hooligan, appears in an entirely new capacity. On a stage a professor of magic is performing some...

in this domestic drama, Jimmie’s wife Jeanne falls for Proctor Maddox, a socialist and male feminist, and wants a divorce from her husband. To...

Orphan Mary Lord, the ward of Sir Arthur Stanhope of Parliament, is attracted to Philip Carmichael, a young politician, who ignores her and goes...