James H. White Movies

The title pretty much tells you all there is to know about this Edison film. It runs a very brief 27-seconds and shows a torpedo hitting its target...

Showing Committee of Arrangements visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia.

A crowded ship heading out to sea.

Shows the S.S. "Queen" at Seattle with an immense crowd of miners crowding the decks of the boat and the docks, carrying aboard baggage, implements,...

A street scene showing parade of the entire Buffalo Police Department, 16 men abreast, with military band.

Taken on the S.P. Railroad, near tunnel No. 9. The train comes rushing out of the tunnel and passes at full speed...

“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...

“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...

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

Short clip of passing troops at the Dewey Arch.

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...

Crackers faux shooting and feigning getting shot in the Philippine-american war.

Another Edison film shot in San Francisco at the Fisherman's Wharf. Once again the camera is looking down on a group of men doing their jobs.

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

Formed by the junction of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and 35th Street. The picturesque low roofed Herald building is plainly shown; also the passing...

Street scene of LA in 1898.

Some men are playing a game on the beach, while some ladies with their backs to the cameras watch. A donkey cart ambles by.

Probably part of the "Alaska and Yellowstone National Park Series" in the "Northern Pacific Railway Series"

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...

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