- Birthday
- 1875-01-05
- Deathday
- 1941-08-13
- Place of Birth
- Sheffield, Yorkshire [now South Yorkshire], England, UK
J. Stuart Blackton
DirectingBiography
James Stuart Blackton was a pioneer Anglo-American filmmaker and can be credited with the first feature-length American production. He founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897 and was among the first filmmakers to use stop-motion and drawn animation.