James H. White Movies
- 1897
Armour's Electric Trolley
Armour's Electric Trolley3.3571897HD
At the Armour & Co. Chicago yard. Two railroad tracks dominate the center and right half of the frame as we look down about 40 meters where an...
- 1900
Boers Bringing in British Prisoners
Boers Bringing in British Prisoners5.3331900HD
Here we have a mixed company of Gordon Highlanders, Irish Fusilliers and English Lancers, as a group of prisoners taken to the rear by a troop of...
- 1896
Irish Way of Discussing Politics
Irish Way of Discussing Politics31896HD
This is a typical Irish argument in which a can of beer, clay pipes and two sons of Erin form the principal parts.
- 1900
Grandma and the Bad Boys
Grandma and the Bad Boys5.81900HD
Two bad boys enter the kitchen. One climbs to the kitchen table and takes down the old lamp, the other goes to the flour barrel and scoops out some...
- 1917
Down the Old Potomac
Down the Old Potomac5.51917HD
This fascinating 12-minute documentary from Edison's Conquest Pictures features a man in a small boat being pulled (from a horse on shore) down the...
- 1900
Panorama of the Paris Exposition, from the Seine
Panorama of the Paris Exposition, from the Seine6.21900HD
This panoramic scene is taken from a Seine steamboat and gives a rapid view of the banks of the river...
- 1900
Gymnasium Exercises and Drill at Newport Training School
Gymnasium Exercises and Drill at Newport Training School3.71900HD
This picture shows the young cadets going through their daily exercises and drill, and is full of life, and photographically perfect.
- 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
Mount Tamalpais R.R., No. 2
Mount Tamalpais R.R., No. 23.41898HD
Taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais scenic railroad, Marin county, California, from a flat car following the engine.
- 1897
Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago
Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago4.21897HD
The busiest corner in Chicago. Cable cars and street traffic of all descriptions. Hundreds of shoppers. Fine perspective view looking north toward...
- 1897
S.S. 'Coptic' Sailing Away
S.S. 'Coptic' Sailing Away3.8331897HD
“Shows the vessel after she has been fully turned and on her way across the Pacific. The boat shows large and clear with smoke coming from the...
- 1900
Panorama of the Moving Boardwalk
Panorama of the Moving Boardwalk5.41900HD
An early short with a self-explanatory title.
- 1898
Union Iron Works
Union Iron Works2.81898HD
"Here was built the peerless battleship 'Oregon.' The scene is taken at lunch hour, and shows a great throng of employees leaving the shop."
- 1897
Husking Bee
Husking Bee31897HD
Shows a party of young people in front of a barn door, searching for the red ear, which is discovered, and the penalty exacted from one of the group...
- 1902
Panoramic View Near Mt. Golden on the Canadian Pacific R. R.
Panoramic View Near Mt. Golden on the Canadian Pacific R. R.61902HD
Here we present to the audience a subject taken near Mt. Golden, on which will thoroughly please all who are lovers of scenery. One minute you are...
- 1897
Sheep Run, Chicago Stockyards
Sheep Run, Chicago Stockyards4.31897HD
"Shows a large flock of sheep being driven from the cars to the slaughter house."
- 1898
Fighting the Fire
Fighting the Fire41898HD
Shows steam fire engine in action. Men scale ladders and play streams of water on a burning building. Very realistic.
- 1900
Panoramic View of Newport
Panoramic View of Newport4.21900HD
Possibly the sensation of the flight of a bird can be nearest realized by being on deck of one of the U.S. Government's fleet torpedo boats racing at...
- 1898
Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Ry.
Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Ry.3.91898HD
Taken at Fingal, Cal., where the world-renowned 'Sunset Limited' trains pass each other.
- 1897
Launch of Life Boat
Launch of Life Boat3.21897HD
This Edison short delivers everything the title says. In 24-seconds we see a boat being lowered into the water led by Capt. Joseph Hodgson. The boat...