Buccaneer: James Stuart Blackton And The Birth Of American Movies (Film And History)

This is an in-depth look at the life and career of James Stuart Blackton (1875-1941), the first great commercial vendor of cinema who grasped that motion pictures were not merely a technical innovation, but a popular entertainment form for the masses. Blackton was a man of many firsts in the film industry: the first combination actor-director-producer in the United States, the country s first national exhibitor, and the first film propagandist. He contributed landmark innovations in everything from special effects to single-frame animation, for which he is often regarded as the father of the animated cartoon."

• | Author: Donald Dewey
• | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• | Publication Date: Apr 15, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1442242582
• | ISBN-13: 9781442242586