J. Stuart Blackton
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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 filmmak
Blackton in 1912
Vitagraph Studios founders William T. Rock, Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton (1916)
Blackton and daughter Marian Blackton Trimble (1901–1993), author of a personal biography of her father that was edited by film historian Anthony Slide
A Tale of Two Cities (1911)
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated film directed by James Stuart Blackton and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture
A single frame from the animation, showing the use of cut-out technique