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James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941) 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.
James Stuart Blackton (1875 – 1941) (usually known as J. Stuart Blackton) was an Anglo-American film producer and director who founded Vitagraph Studios.
J. Stuart Blackton (born Jan. 5, 1875, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Aug. 13, 1941, Hollywood) was a British-born U.S. film director and producer who introduced animation and other important film techniques that helped shape and stimulate the development of cinematic art.
The Enchanted Drawing is a 1900 silent trick film directed by J. Stuart Blackton. It is best known for containing the first animated sequences recorded on standard picture film , which has led Blackton to be considered the father of American animation .
Director/animator: J. Stuart Blackton. This earliest surviving American animated film--in the strict sense of single exposures of drawings simulating movement--uses chalkboard sketches and then cut-outs to simplify the process.
James Stuart Blackton. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941), father of American animation.
History. Advertisement for Vitagraph features in The Moving Picture World, 1916. Vitagraph Studios, Hollywood, California. Vitagraph Company, Brooklyn New York, c. 1915. The Life of Moses (1909), directed by J. Stuart Blackton, the first five-reel picture made in America.
