J. Stuart Blackton Movies

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast....

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

Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the...

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower...

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...

When a trio of criminals kidnap a rich man's daughter and nurse, a detective goes undercover into the Italian-immigrant ghetto where they're being...

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...

A comic looking prison eats soup

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...

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

A young Englishman falls in love with the children's governess in his step-sister's home. His step-sister, however, cannot abide the class...

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...

As the above title indicates, the scene does not take place in an ordinary restaurant, but one in which all natural rules of order and gravitation...

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

In a charming dining room a very attractive young lady is seen seated at the table, evidently waiting for the caller who is to share a quiet little...

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

A story of ancient Rome. The scene of this story is laid in Rome in the days of Nero. Rome has recently suffered conflagrations and other disasters,...

A writer of tawdry fiction falls asleep at his desk and dreams of a romantic rivalry-- One likely as familiar to film fans then as it is now-- But...

In a small Nova Scotia, Canada, fishing village, Charity Byfleet marries William Pennland, a romantic soldier of fortune, just before he leaves on a...

silent western