James H. White Filmes

Directed by James H. White.

Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.

A documentary short from Edison Manufacturing Company.

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...

This picture was taken at one of the curves on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, along the beautiful Susquehanna River. The train is seen rapidly...

This fascinating 12-minute documentary from Edison's Conquest Pictures features a man in a small boat being pulled (from a horse on shore) down the...

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

Showing Central Park in the background.

Artist draws Thomas Edison.

A crowd watches the Newark Fire Department respond to a call.

A ship in a harbor.

This picture shows the Canadian troops departing from Quebec for the war in Transvaal. The scene opens with the soldiers clad in campaign uniform,...

The wharf is crowded with live stock, and the huge derrick slowly drops the large box or sling into the bunch. Into this cradle a horse is led, and...

A lady watering the garden with a hose, a mischievous boy stops the flow of water until she looks for the cause, when he permits the water to flow,...

Circus bears showing their tricks.

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

The stubborn resistance of the Boers is shown by the activity and persistency with which they fire the two large field pieces immediately in the...

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...

This Edison short delivers everything the title says. In 24-seconds we see a boat being lowered into the water led by Capt. Joseph Hodgson. The boat...

One of the sights of San Francisco. A 50-foot slide is used by the bathers, who toboggan down its slippery surface in all positions...