J. Stuart Blackton Movies

Released the same week than Selig's version, they both were the first film versions of the popular play, adapted from Ellen Wood's 1861 novel.

A professor sprays people with 'galvanic fluid', and unleashes pent-up energy. Displays an early use of over-cranking and under-cranking.

A gentleman of France

James J. Jeffries throwing the medicine ball. An absolutely perfect picture of the champion heavyweight of the world.

A two-reel film about George Washington.

A farmer's son, family facing foreclosure, goes to the city and bets everything on a horse race. When he wins big, he goes back to the country and...