J. Stuart Blackton Movies

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

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

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

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...

James J. Jeffries throwing the medicine ball. An absolutely perfect picture of the champion heavyweight of the world.

No sooner have Jimmy and Mary, a newly-married couple, entered their new home when Jimmie receives a note from his wealthy uncle, announcing his...

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

When a trio of criminals kidnap a rich man's daughter and nurse, a detective goes undercover into the Italian-immigrant ghetto where they're being...

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.

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.

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...

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.

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

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...

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

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.

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

In the center of the ring the trainer forms a pile of baskets many feet in height. Greyhounds leap in rapid succession, forming a graceful arch and...