James H. White Movies

This Edison short takes us to San Jose, CA where we visit the Hotel Vendome (just as the title suggests).

Two delinquent clerks are seated in a broker's office engaged in a game of cards. The boss suddenly appears walking through the corridor. The cards...

The crew of seven dressed in cork jackets, push the boat through the surf; they clamber in and row out to the wreck. 50 ft.

Branding calves in 1898.

This picture shows the young cadets going through their daily exercises and drill, and is full of life, and photographically perfect.

One of the sights of San Francisco. A 50-foot slide is used by the bathers, who toboggan down its slippery surface in all positions...

"The famous parade ground of Metropolitan fashion. Exquisitely gowned women, club men, actresses, millionaires pass by on their afternoon stroll." -...

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

The film was photographed as if in the audience at a bull fight. No. 3 shows the collapse of the bull.

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...

Beginning with the camera pointing toward the Invalides entrance, with the tomb of Napoleon in the background. The camera is slowly revolved until it...

A Thomas Edison film showing a torpedo being shot.

New York City welcome to Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay, Cuba.

“A clever characteristic dance called the 'Yellow Kid.' Very unique. Stage is in the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal., and the audience is...

Another Edison film of a ship departing.

A crew of railroad workmen are busy along the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. When the Black Diamond Express appears in the distance, they...

In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance. In her dance she shakes, twists and...

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

A crowd watches the Newark Fire Department respond to a call.

Great horse racing on the famous Hartford track, showing start and finish of a 2.04 3/4 heat run by the fastest harness horse in the world, John R....