An image from The Haunted Hotel, one of the productions that also features J. Stuart Blackton.
J. Stuart Blackton
January 5, 1875 — 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.