James H. White Movies

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...

This picture shows the Cadets marching, countermarching and a great many interesting manoeuvres.

Showing Central Park in the background.

A documentary short from Edison Manufacturing Company.

Taken from an automobile. This picture was taken during the fashionable driving hour, making a complete circle of the Place de la Concorde, passing...

The wharf is crowded with live stock, and the huge derrick slowly drops the large box or sling into the bunch. Into this cradle a horse is led, and...

“Magnificent view of hurricane at sea. Vessel rises at one moment, riding the wave mountains, and then dips into the trough of the sea. A...

An early short with a self-explanatory title.

Edison released this as part of their "Northern Pacific Rainway" and "Alaska and Yellowstone National Park" series.

You see a shot of three horse-drawn wagons on a dirt road with some mountains in the far background...

The only picture extant showing this wonderful performance of a horse diving from a staging 40 feet in height into the water. Scenes secured at the...

This picture shows thousands of people leaving their seats in the grand stand and going across the parade grounds toward Paris. A very sharp and...

A close view of an eighty-footer, schooner rigged, trim as a private yacht, skimming over the waters of the harbor, near Robins' Reef, which...

This is a typical Irish argument in which a can of beer, clay pipes and two sons of Erin form the principal parts.

Filmed in July 1900, on the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.

"A double-decked trolley car, crowded with passengers, approaches and passes the camera. Carriages, pedestrians and bicyclists add to the action of...

A Thomas Edison film showing a torpedo being shot.

Near the center of this scene we see the regimental surgeon directing the movements of the Ambulance Corps. Tenderly they pick up the unfortunates...

Branding calves in 1898.

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...