J. Stuart Blackton Movies

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...

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...

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.

A comic looking prison eats soup

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

Arnold, reproved by General Washington, decides, with the bitter hatred of a small nature, to betray West Point into the hands of the British, and to...