James H. White Movies

Photographed February-March, 1898 in Canton, China

A documentary short from Edison Manufacturing Company.

The Buffoons are artists in their line. They tumble in and out of trick doors, disappear and reappear in unexpected places in most unexpected ways....

This is just at the title suggests. it's the McKinley and Hobart Parade at Canton

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

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...

First comes the famous Marine Band of the 'Brooklyn,' with the mascot goat beside the bass drum. The 300 marines follow in rapid marching order, a...

"A side splitting subject, showing the mistaken tramp's arrival at the Wm. Waldorf Astor mansion and being discovered comfortably asleep in bed, by...

Shows the wharf at San Francisco, Cal., with a large fleet of fishing boats at anchor.

Showing Central Park in the background.

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

A Thomas Edison film showing a torpedo being shot.

Chinese passengers make their way down the wharf. Two chair bearers are soliciting fares, but without any success.

This picture ... centers about some guard ropes moving about, perhaps in the wind, perhaps as the platform the movie is taken from rolls about, while...

A parade of soldiers.

"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...

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...

Reenactment of a South African battle.

Positively the most wonderful series of pictures ever secured by an animated picture camera. The first scene is taken from the pond of the chutes,...

This commercial traveler has evidently had a wet day judging from the strange things he sees at his hotel. The hall boy shows him to his room, puts...