James H. White Filmes

A Thomas Edison film showing a torpedo being shot.

Filmed in July 1900, on the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.

Up the road comes a detachment of infantry, firing, advancing, kneeling and firing, again and again...

From Edison films catalog: A long line of horses, mules and ponies are led, driven and ridden into the yards, where they are sold and distributed.

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....

This twenty-five second film is from Edison's "Southern Pacific Company" series. What we see is a Japanese ship as it is floating into a harbor in...

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

An early short with a self-explanatory title.

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 hen house occupies the entire left foreground of the picture, running back to the nearby road. The main foreground is filled with tall grass...

James White, the Edison Company's main filmmaker at the time, realized a burst of creativity during his visit to the 1900 Paris Exposition. It's...

A crowded ship heading out to sea.

In [Admiral] Dewey land parade.

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

"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...

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

People spill drink on themselves, supposedly after a poker game during the Yukon Gold Rush.

You see a shot of three horse-drawn wagons on a dirt road with some mountains in the far background...

In front of each bare headed woman is a flat rock, used as a wash board. Stream of water near by.

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.