J. Stuart Blackton Movies

Artist draws Thomas Edison.

The Clean Heart (1924)

A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.

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

A pretty and natural picture in which the principal actors are two tiny tots who are evidently not a bit afraid of the briny deep as they splash...

Sir Walter Scott adaptation, existing in fragmentary form in the Library of Congress paper print collections.

A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and...

An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word.

There is a burglar on the rooftop of a Manhattan office building, and he is trying to break in. Two women spot him, and one of them begins beating...

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the...

Part one of Blackton’s “The Life of Napoleon". Napoleon meets Josephine, falls in love with her, marries and then divorces her.

Francesca, surrounded by ladies-in-waiting at the palace. Her father enters, and together they read a letter from Lanciotto, asking for the hand of...

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

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

Shows the efficiency of modern life-saving methods and apparatus now in use by the fire departments. Shows the front of a building burning and two...

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

The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first animated short film created in stop-motion technique. It features a circus with acrobats and animals in motion.