J. Stuart Blackton Movies

An inventor, David Hammond is the son of a ship's captain. He leaves his sweetheart, Lisbeth Bixler, and goes to the city to promote his invention....

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

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

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

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with...

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

The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.

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

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

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

The Clean Heart (1924)

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

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...

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

A writer of tawdry fiction falls asleep at his desk and dreams of a romantic rivalry-- One likely as familiar to film fans then as it is now-- But...

Lupin is the lover of Joan of the Apaches. She is attracted by Paul de Gafilet, nobleman and sculptor. She visits him in his studio and resolves to...

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...

An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and her mother have washed ashore on a rocky island...