Movies: James H. White

Children entering and exiting a schoolhouse....

Recreation of military maneuvers in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War....

From Edison films catalog: The water breaks over the rocks, and is dashed into silvery spray, high into the air. Exceptionally fine water effects....

Near the center of this scene we see the regimental surgeon directing the movements of the Ambulance Corps. Tenderly they pick up the unfortunates and place them in the ambulance. The numbers disabled show the battle has been a hot one, and many a po...

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 flour, pouring it into the chimney until it is filled to the top. The lamp is then replaced in the bra...

The film was photographed as if in the audience at a bull fight. No. 3 shows the collapse of the bull....

Two carts, one with a boat on it, are being pushed out of a garage....

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 welcome from the people and to fire a salute of victory in sight of the tomb of the great soldier-hero...

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

This is just at the title suggests. it's the McKinley and Hobart Parade at Canton...

Here we present to the audience a subject taken near Mt. Golden, on which will thoroughly please all who are lovers of scenery. One minute you are running straight to the mountain of rock, and then when you expect to be dashed into it, suddenly turn ...

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

This picture opens with the young cadets climbing the rigging and going through the sail drill on board the famous historic ship "Constellation." Loosing sail to buntline, making sail, shortening sail and furling; also loose sail to bowline. This pic...

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

A farmer kisses a lean girl....

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 and going off. I think the most fascinating thing about this is that we get a pretty close shot of the...

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

The famous Seal Rocks at Golden Gate Park are here shown. Sea lions in their wild state are lying on the rocks and swimming and diving in the water....

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

A crowded ship heading out to sea....