James H. White Movies

Shows steam fire engine in action. Men scale ladders and play streams of water on a burning building. Very realistic.

The stubborn resistance of the Boers is shown by the activity and persistency with which they fire the two large field pieces immediately in the...

“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of...

"Grandpa sits nodding in his armchair in the kitchen, where a sout, jolly washerwoman is washing clothes. While the woman leaves the tub to talk to a...

Eight mounted cowboys pursue an escaped steer, riding at furious speed. Fine exhibition of lasso throwing. Mexican International.

Here is another view on the Bund, with The Garden on the left, with its high arched conservatory. As in the former scene, the peculiar wheelbarrows...

American Falls, from Incline R.R. (1896) is a brief silent actuality directed by James H. White and produced by Thomas A. Edison. Filmed from a...

“This is a new negative showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York, in which the immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the...

It's a traveling shot from behind the railings. As the camera moves slowly along the harbor, we have a fine view of the rail. In the distance we spot...

Another Edison film of a ship departing.

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

It is train time. We look down the long platform, crowded with people, and see the famous N.P. Railway Overland Express approaching rapidly. In a...

The President is seen on the reviewing stand at the Stadium, escorted by President Milburn, of the Pan-American Exposition...

Showing Committee of Arrangements visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia.

Short clip of passing troops at the Dewey Arch.

The large war vessel slides slowly down the ways, stern first. Rowboats in the foreground rock violently in the swell. One boat upsets.

Despite the title, the most one can glean from this very short short is a bunch of guys having fun in a harbor.

A herd of long-horn cattle being driven through the Chicago stock yard gates to the slaughter house, where 280 of the animals are killed every hour...

This panoramic scene is taken from a Seine steamboat and gives a rapid view of the banks of the river...

In the distance is seen a number of grey objects rapidly approaching, which, upon drawing closer, are recognized as a company of Boer cavalry. As...