J. Stuart Blackton Movies

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

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

An organ-grinder is playing beneath the window of a cranky old woman. She objects strenuously. The organ-grinder, egged on by Hooligan, keeps on...

J. Stuart Blackton filming the Battle of Santiago Bay in 1898

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

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...

Big Steve and Little Lefty, a pair of hobos, are happily drifting through life until the First World War comes and enter it and find their lives...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the...

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...

The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones,...

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

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with...

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

Although we are led to believe that the ancient alchemists were all powerful, this picture somewhat reverses the order of things...

Artist draws Thomas Edison.