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see notes under Lionel Belmore in the yachting cap with the megaphone? or "Commodore" Blackton?

I vote for Commodore Blackton. Face and glasses (clearly visible in high-res TIFF at lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/ggbain/22500/22520u.tif ) seem to match Blackton. See

for a picture with him identified by Bain.

But the movie could be "Britton of the Seventh" (and not "Battle Cry of Peace") since that was a Vitagraph movie. Since Blackton was a principal in Vitagraph and a technical movie-maker, he might well have been around.

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Confirmed this as Blackton directing "Battle Cry of War", working title of "Womanhood, Glory of the Nation". The New York Dramatic Mirror uses this shot in its September 9, 1916 edition, with the caption "Vice President J. Stuart Blackton directing a scene of Vitagraph's "The Battle Cry of War." www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2010/New%20York%20NY%20Dr...

Thanks for the comments. We will add some information to the record.

Actress Paula Hilburn Blackton (1881-1930): her husband James Stuart Blackton was founder of Vitagraph Studios, an early film studio. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Blackton en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Stuart_Blackton www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11517827 Paula Blackton was an enthusiastic yachtswoman, and owned a champion racing yacht. She made the news herself in 1911, when she jumped into Huntington Bay, Long Island, from the yacht Paula, "with all her wraps on," to save a waiter who had fallen out of his canoe. She also directed films, often starring her own children Violet and Charles, set at the family estate in Oyster Bay. In one of them (The Littlest Scout, 1919), her son is a Boy Scout who is kidnapped by German spies and leads a Scout troop to capture a German submarine.

pennylrichardsca: thank you for the additional information about this fascinating woman. We will add more details when we update the description.

Several movies featuring battles were produced in 1915-1916. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_a_Nation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Cry_of_Peace Only the last of these three appears to be produced by Vitagraph.

The neighboring picture features Stuart Blackton, one of the directors of The Battle Cry of Peace.

A job well done.