J. Stuart Blackton

Birthday: January 5th, 1875 Date of Death: August 13th, 1941 Place of Birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire [now South Yorkshire], England, UK

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.