J. Stuart Blackton Movies

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the...

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

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...

Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.

Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord.

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...

A story of ancient Rome. The scene of this story is laid in Rome in the days of Nero. Rome has recently suffered conflagrations and other disasters,...

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

Sixth and final episode in the series of short films titled Paula Blackton's Country Life Stories.

A stout, happy German is standing in front of his beer saloon. In front of him is a top hat. When a small boy comes along and starts to kick the hat,...

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...

An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.

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...

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

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...

"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...

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

The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones,...