J. Stuart Blackton
Film director
1875 – 1941
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Who was J. Stuart Blackton?
James Stuart Blackton was an Anglo-American film producer, most notable for making the first silent film that included animated sequences recorded on standard picture film – The Enchanted Drawing – and is because of that considered the father of American animation. Both stop-motion and drawn animation techniques were used in his films. He was also a director of silent film, and the founder of Vitagraph Studios.
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- Born
- Jan 5, 1875
Sheffield - Also known as
- James Stuart Blackton
- Komikal Kartoonist
- Spouses
- Evangeline Wood
(1936/09 - 1941/08/13) - Helen Stahle
(1931 - 1933/12/12) - Paula Blackton
(1906 - 1930/03/27) - Isabel Mabel MacArthur
(1898 - 1906)
- Evangeline Wood
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- Sheffield
- Died
- Aug 13, 1941
Hollywood
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on July 23, 2013
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