James H. White Movies
- 1896
Sea Beach Scene
Sea Beach Scene71896HD
Some men are playing a game on the beach, while some ladies with their backs to the cameras watch. A donkey cart ambles by.
- 1898
Mexican Rurales Charge
Mexican Rurales Charge11898HD
Magnificent action is displayed by this troop of Mexican cavalry. They approach at full speed, with drawn sabres, wheel rapidly, and charge in the...
- 1900
Panorama of Eiffel Tower
Panorama of Eiffel Tower5.61900HD
“Showing the entire height of this wonderful structure from the base of the dome and return, with the great Paris Exposition in the background,...
- 1900
Esplanade des Invalides
Esplanade des Invalides3.6671900HD
Beginning with the camera pointing toward the Invalides entrance, with the tomb of Napoleon in the background. The camera is slowly revolved until it...
- 1897
Fast mail, Northern Pacific Railroad
Fast mail, Northern Pacific Railroad3.91897HD
Here is a twelve car train dashing along at a high rate of speed. It is seen first in the distance and approaches and then passes by the camera...
- 1897
Buffalo Police on Parade
Buffalo Police on Parade4.11897HD
A street scene showing parade of the entire Buffalo Police Department, 16 men abreast, with military band.
- 1899
Dewey Parade, 10th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Dewey Parade, 10th Pennsylvania Volunteers31899HD
In [Admiral] Dewey land parade.
- 1898
Kanakas Diving for Money (Honolulu), No. 2
Kanakas Diving for Money (Honolulu), No. 23.31898HD
Despite the title, the most one can glean from this very short short is a bunch of guys having fun in a harbor.
- 1899
Skirmish of Rough Riders
Skirmish of Rough Riders2.41899HD
Shielded by a thick bit of timber at a turn of the road stands a company of mounted men, awaiting the order to advance...
- 1896
A Morning Alarm
A Morning Alarm71896HD
"This scene shows almost the entire Fire Department led by the Chief, responding to an alarm. The horses, said to be the finest of their kind in the...
- 1898
Bull Fight, no. 3
Bull Fight, no. 301898HD
The film was photographed as if in the audience at a bull fight. No. 3 shows the collapse of the bull.
- 1899
Colonel Funston Swimming the Bagbag River
Colonel Funston Swimming the Bagbag River31899HD
He throws off his coat, takes the rope in his mouth, dives from the raft into the river, and under a hot fire swims to the opposite shore, which is...
- 1898
Calf Branding
Calf Branding3.31898HD
Branding calves in 1898.
- 1901
Love in a Hammock
Love in a Hammock4.3331901HD
Shows two lovers in a hammock. Two bad boys appear. One of them climbs into a tree and scrambles out on an overhanging branch, directly over the...
- 1900
Exploding a Whitehead Torpedo
Exploding a Whitehead Torpedo5.21900HD
The title pretty much tells you all there is to know about this Edison film. It runs a very brief 27-seconds and shows a torpedo hitting its target...
- 1900
Red Cross Ambulance on Battlefield
Red Cross Ambulance on Battlefield31900HD
Near the center of this scene we see the regimental surgeon directing the movements of the Ambulance Corps. Tenderly they pick up the unfortunates...
- 1900
Panoramic View of the Champs Elysees
Panoramic View of the Champs Elysees4.41900HD
Filmed in July 1900, on the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.
- 1899
104th Street Curve, New York, Elevated Railway
104th Street Curve, New York, Elevated Railway4.71899HD
Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over this celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of...
- 1898
Freight Train
Freight Train4.31898HD
Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything...
- 1898
Going Through the Tunnel
Going Through the Tunnel4.81898HD
"On the way to San[ta] Monica, Cal., the train approaches, runs through and emerges from a tunnel. Train passes in opposite direction. Camera is at...