James H. White Movies

"A battalion of New York's famous mounted police at inspection. They approach at break-neck gallop." - from the Edison Catalog

This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to...

The dancer Fatima, well-known for her dancing shows at the World's Exhibition in 1893, performs for the camera. She opens her act by twirling around...

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...

The camera shows a view of the American Falls and Goat Island.

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....

Despite the title, the most one can glean from this very short short is a bunch of guys having fun in a harbor.

New York City police catch thieves and stop runaway horses.

Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over this celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of...

Artist draws Thomas Edison.

Here is a twelve car train dashing along at a high rate of speed. It is seen first in the distance and approaches and then passes by the camera...

“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...

Two bad boys enter the kitchen. One climbs to the kitchen table and takes down the old lamp, the other goes to the flour barrel and scoops out some...

The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.

Ten horse-drawn pieces of equipment of the Buffalo Fire Department pass by a stationary camera that looks down a broad avenue as they come toward...

Shielded by a thick bit of timber at a turn of the road stands a company of mounted men, awaiting the order to advance...

Children entering and exiting a schoolhouse.

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....

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

"The main feature is the toboggan slide. Some sit down while others lie down, either head or feet first."