J. Stuart Blackton Movies

The day before Christmas in a squalid tenement room shared by young sisters Nell and Bess, their brother Tom, and their 18-year-old sister Anne the...

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...

Vitagraph short from 1907

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,...

Part two of Blackton's "The Life of Napoleon". After Waterloo, Napoleon reminisces. His triumphs are seen in flashback. The film ends with the exiled...

"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical...

Orphan Mary Lord, the ward of Sir Arthur Stanhope of Parliament, is attracted to Philip Carmichael, a young politician, who ignores her and goes...

A countryman goes to see a spiritualist and is frightened by what he sees.

King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.

When Jack Greylock elopes with Jessica, wife of his lifelong friend David Drene, they are taken with remorse and she commits suicide. Later, Jack...

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 farmer's son, family facing foreclosure, goes to the city and bets everything on a horse race. When he wins big, he goes back to the country and...

A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.

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

Vitagraph’s Battle of Santiago Bay (1898) blended real Spanish–American War footage with tabletop trickery. Albert E. Smith’s...

Released the same week than Selig's version, they both were the first film versions of the popular play, adapted from Ellen Wood's 1861 novel.

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

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...

Persons who have visited the "Hub," no doubt carried away with vivid recollections of Boston's famous system of Underground Transportation and this...

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...