FILM DIRECTOR

J. Stuart Blackton

1875 - 1941

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James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941) was a British-American film producer and director of the silent era. One of the pioneers of motion pictures, he founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897. He was one of the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation, is considered a father of American animation, and was the first to bring many classic plays and books to the screen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. Stuart Blackton has received more than 230,892 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). J. Stuart Blackton is the 714th most popular film director (down from 646th in 2019), the 2,530th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,411th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of J. Stuart Blacktons by language

Over the past year J. Stuart Blackton has had the most page views in the with 26,785 views, followed by Spanish (4,294), and Russian (2,694). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (54.37%), Serbo-Croatian (38.10%), and Ukrainian (31.38%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, J. Stuart Blackton ranks 714 out of 2,041. Before him are Daniel Schmid, Olle Hellbom, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Enzo G. Castellari, Jacques Rozier, and Dante Ferretti. After him are Yasuzo Masumura, Paul Grimault, Steno, Tatyana Lioznova, Charles Vidor, and Otakar Vávra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, J. Stuart Blackton ranks 105. Before him are Bernhard Lichtenberg, Vladimir Filatov, Archibald Reiss, Mammad Hasan Hajinski, Felix Hamrin, and Laurence Doherty. After him are Alexander Goldenweiser, Henri Callot, Kunio Yanagita, Italo Montemezzi, Leonor Michaelis, and Friedrich von Huene. Among people deceased in 1941, J. Stuart Blackton ranks 125. Before him are Giuseppe Amisani, Alexander Svanidze, Vilmos Aba-Novák, Philippe Gaubert, Rudolf Ramek, and Friedrich Akel. After him are Franz Bartl, Filipp Makharadze, Marcel Prévost, Milka Ternina, Dimitrios Golemis, and Otto Strandman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. Stuart Blackton ranks 2,530 out of 8,785. Before him are Jane Asher (1946), Leonard Hobhouse (1864), Henri Alleg (1921), Daniel Jones (1881), J. M. E. McTaggart (1866), and Henry Taylor (1885). After him are Harry Seeley (1839), Hugh Despenser the younger (1287), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838), Marianne North (1830), and Warwick Davis (1970).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, J. Stuart Blackton ranks 53. Before him are Andrew Birkin (1945), John Madden (1949), Paul Greengrass (1955), Robert Stevenson (1905), Terence Davies (1945), and Richard Marquand (1937). After him are James Whale (1889), Stephen Daldry (1960), Terence Fisher (1904), Laura Mulvey (1941), Andrew V. McLaglen (1920), and Sally Potter (1949).

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Filmography

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
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A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
Apr 5o 19065.8 / 10
The Enchanted Drawing
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A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
Nov 16o 19006.4 / 10
Little Nemo
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Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics".
Apr 8o 19116.3 / 10