J. Stuart Blackton Movies

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor...

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

The Astor Battery became famous after the Spanish-American war and these young men are on display in this Edison short, which was shot on Saturday,...

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...

The Shamrock is seen after its defeat in the 1899 America's Cup, along with the Erin, which served as its tow boat across the Atlantic.

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show...

Shakespeare's tragedy of the wicked and hump-backed Duke of Gloucester, who rises to the throne of England by chicanery, treachery, and brilliance.

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

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

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Windsor Castle, November 13th, 1312. He was...

Adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.

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...

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

When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American...

Sid Hunt and Jude Lowery are Carolina sweethearts but hired-hand Rufe Pryer also has his eyes on her. Rufe lies to Andy, Jude's brother, and a...

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...