J. Stuart Blackton Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Newspaper editor and successful novelist Philip Wriford suffers a mental breakdown from overwork and worry over having to support orphaned children....

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

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.

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...

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.

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Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

A young Englishman falls in love with the children's governess in his step-sister's home. His step-sister, however, cannot abide the class...

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...

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

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...

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