James H. White Filmes

A crowded ship heading out to sea.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

New York City police catch thieves and stop runaway horses.

Magnificent action is displayed by this troop of Mexican cavalry. They approach at full speed, with drawn sabres, wheel rapidly, and charge in the...

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

Branding calves in 1898.

This picture opens with the young cadets climbing the rigging and going through the sail drill on board the famous historic ship "Constellation."...

He throws off his coat, takes the rope in his mouth, dives from the raft into the river, and under a hot fire swims to the opposite shore, which is...

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...

I do believe I have stumbled upon the very first exploitation picture ever made; and no it wasn't by David Friedman or Kroger Babb or K. Gordon...

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

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