James stuart blackton biography of barack

James Stuart Blackton was born in Sheffield on 5 January 1875, but while a child left England for America. He worked as a journalist and illustrator in New York, where he interviewed Thomas Edison, who was impressed enough with his drawings to make a cartoon film: Blackton the Evening World Cartoonist (1896).

Blackton bought a Kinetoscope from Edison and went into partnership with A.E. Smith, and later William T. Rock, to form the Vitagraph Company.

James stuart blackton biography of barack obama

They opened a studio on the roof of the Morse building at 140 Nassau St, New York, and produced films in which they acted themselves. Tearing Down the Spanish Flag (1898), proved popular in recreating an incident from the Spanish-American war and Vitagraph went on to explore all types of filmmaking, including actualities of local events, comedy series (such as 'The Happy Hooligan') and adaptations of Shakespeare and Dickens.

The company moved to Flatbush in Brooklyn to a new purpose-built glassed-in studio, where