James H. White Movies

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

“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...

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

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...

“Another view in which the figures show larger. A springboard furnishes the bathers with much amusement; also a toboggan slide.” (Edison...

People walking around the campus. The view shows an immense arch in the background through which are seen coming groups of students, some walking,...

"Grandpa sits nodding in his armchair in the kitchen, where a sout, jolly washerwoman is washing clothes. While the woman leaves the tub to talk to a...

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

Interesting types of Mexicans watch the arrivals by the train. Sombreros, serapes and mantillas give the scene a very distinctive foreign appearance.

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

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

The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.

Seagulls flock around a moving ferryboat in San Francisco Bay in this 2-shot short film.

"On the way to San[ta] Monica, Cal., the train approaches, runs through and emerges from a tunnel. Train passes in opposite direction. Camera is at...

Showing Central Park in the background.

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron...

An active outdoor film with cattle being driven from an outdoor corral by mounted cowboys.

Shows canal running through the suburban village of Santa Anita. Men and women pole their flat-bottom boats along, loaded down with garden produce.

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...

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...