dondewey

Lobster: Yes, Henry was clearly playing around, explaining why James went to the United States with his mother but without his father. I was beginning to think the father had died, but you and Hillsbro have provided far more enticing truths. Thank you again.

Thank you, Lobster. Yes, he made several trips, including a long stay after WWI to make two films.

Hillsbro: I'm enormously grateful for your help. Now I just have to track down what school Jimmy actually went to. Please keep in touch. At some point I would like your name so I can acknowledge it in the book. DD

I am a researcher based in New York currently working on a biography of James Stuart Blackton, the Sheffield-born (1875) filmmaker who was a pioneer in the American film industry. Much of the material circulated about him has been false, not least that he attended Eton (he was only 11 when he migrated to the United States with his mother) and that his father was a noted portrait painter (nobody seems to have heard of this noted artist). Is there anybody out there that might have some information on the family? I would be deeply grateful. Don Dewey