James H. White Movies

Circus bears showing their tricks.

“Showing the entire height of this wonderful structure from the base of the dome and return, with the great Paris Exposition in the background,...

From Edison films catalog: Taken during the Klondike excitement. The streets are crowded with miners buying outfits and supplies. Mule trains,...

The title tells us where we are; the vignette is in two parts, spliced together. On a busy sidewalk, a police officer holds the left arm and a suited...

A soldier is promoted for bravery, marries a Red Cross girl, and goes home to his parents.

While our photographers were crossing the Atlantic Ocean a most wonderful and sensational picture was secured, showing a storm at sea. The picture...

Shows the entire flock running around the corral with great strides and outstretched wings.

In [Admiral] Dewey land parade.

James White, the Edison Company's main filmmaker at the time, realized a burst of creativity during his visit to the 1900 Paris Exposition. It's...

A panoramic shot, making a full circle, at the 1900 Paris Exposition. It begins and ends looking at the front of the Palace of Electricity. As it...

Taken at Fingal, Cal., where the world-renowned 'Sunset Limited' trains pass each other.

A fellow in a wide-brimmed hat, with a willowy stick for a rod and a baited hook, sits down on a plank hanging over a bridge above a stream. He...

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

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

Reenactment of action in the Spanish-American War.

1897 version of Annabelle Moore performing a serpentine dance.

The scene opens by showing the village girls driving home a herd of cows, and shows the native peasantry of Switzerland returning from their daily...

Showing the attacking forces drawn up in line of battle. They immediately commence firing on the shore batteries. The batteries return the fire with...

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson to receive a...

Filmed off the coast of Rhode Island, this Edison short takes place on the U.S. torpedo boat Morris as we see some men loading up a torpedo that is...