J. Stuart Blackton Movies

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

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...

This picture shows the Columbia crossing the line, leading the Shamrock by about 1/2 mile. The Shamrock is plainly seen in the distance and she later...

Part two of Blackton's "The Life of Napoleon". After Waterloo, Napoleon reminisces. His triumphs are seen in flashback. The film ends with the exiled...

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

Tells the biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, taken from the book of Samuel

A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.

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...

Adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.

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,...

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

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

A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.

Film recording of a controversial boxing match with the first black heavyweight champion fighting a white retired former champion.

Helene Palmer and her husband Orrin have grown apart, and she becomes infatuated with bachelor Edward Wadsworth. With the outbreak of World War I,...

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

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...

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

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

King Henry VIII smitten with Anne Boleyn wishes to displace his estimable Queen Catherine for her. He appeals to Cardinal Wolsey to set aside the...