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J. STUART BLACKTON
The big men in moving pictures were not in the business when film industry ^^as in its veriest infancy twenty years ago. Most of the men at the top of the ladder today in motion pictures were doing something quite different when the cimematograph first came into being.
J. Stuart Blackton is an exception to the rule. He began to be a power in moving pictures two decades ago when all there was to a film was a flicker of animated motion on a white sheet in an abandoned grocery store. From that day to this he has been a person to reckon with when moving pictures were in question.
As organizer and president of one of the first picture companies in existence^ he managed the affairs of the concern so well that he boosted the whole art right up on its feet and sent it along the path to the high point where it stands today.
J. Stuart Blackton is still a comparatively young man, a yachting enthusiast, a painter, an author, a producer and a patriot.
One of the first to recognize the need of preparedness in this country, his "Battle Cry of Peace" marks one of the epochs in the preparedness propaganda of this country. He is a producer of big spectacular themes, but in every detail the artistry of the man is shown.
"I have devoted twenty years of my life to the art of motion pictures," he said recently, "and I am beginning to learn how little anyone knows of its marvelous possibilities. Great works of art cannot be accomplished in a hurry. I am going to apply the experience of long years of work to the making of perhaps four artistic productions a year, with every production built upon the film foundation of a literary masterpiece."
Mr. Blackton 's second production for Paramount is no other than Sir Gilbert Parker's well-known novel, "The World for Sale," Sir Gilbert Parker is a personal friend of Mr. Blackton 's and has given him the motion picture rights to all of his productions, including "Wild Youth," "Judgment House" and "The World for Sale." which is to be shown on at the .. Theatre.
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