James H. White — Director (84)
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Horses loading for Klondike, no. 9 (1897) IMDb TMDB
Horses loading for Klondike, no. 9
director: James H. White
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 is slowly hoisted and swung over to the deck of the steamer. This picture is taken ten minutes before sailing time.
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Giant Coal Dumper (1897) IMDb TMDB
Giant Coal Dumper
director: James H. White
“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of coal dust rise as each car is unloaded.”
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Armour's Electric Trolley (1897) IMDb TMDB
Armour's Electric Trolley
director: James H. White
At the Armour & Co. Chicago yard. Two railroad tracks dominate the center and right half of the frame as we look down about 40 meters where an overpass crosses...
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Arrest in Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal. (1897) IMDb TMDB
Arrest in Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal.
director: James H. White
The title tells us where we are; the vignette is in two parts, spliced together. On a busy sidewalk, a police officer holds the left arm and a suited man holds the other of a Chinese wearing a loose white shirt and hat - marching the man up the slight incline past the camera.
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Pillow Fight (1897) IMDb TMDB
Pillow Fight
director: William Heise / James H. White
“A comic subject, clear, bright and characteristic. Shows four girls in their night dresses, engaged in an animated pillow fight. During the action the pillows become torn, and the feathers fly over their heads and about the room in great numbers, producing with the white dresses and the black background a novel effect. Sharp, full of action, and popular in character.” (Edison Catalog)
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Police Patrol Wagon (1897) IMDb TMDB
Police Patrol Wagon
director: James H. White
"It dashes up just in time to gather in the crowd of rowdies that are fighting. The policemen hustle the toughs off to the station house."
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The First Sleigh-Ride (1897) IMDb TMDB
The First Sleigh-Ride
director: James H. White
“This subject taken just after the recent first fall of snow, shows two enthusiastic horsemen indulging in a "brush" with their respective horses and cutters.” (Maguire & Baucus)
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Ella Lola, a la Trilby (1898) IMDb TMDB
Ella Lola, a la Trilby
director: James H. White actor: Ella Lola
A young, dark-haired woman performs a dance inspired by George du Maurier's character Trilby, in an early modern dance style reminiscent of Isadora Duncan. She dances barefoot without stockings and is dressed in a long, flowing gown bound across the bosom in Grecian style, with inside fringe and a draped cape hooked to her wrist. She also wears what appears to be a garland headpiece. Holding her gown with one hand throughout, the dancer performs a series of kicks and turns with leg kicks front and back, rocking, and round de jambe.
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Charge of Boer Cavalry (1900) IMDb TMDB
Charge of Boer Cavalry
director: James H. White
In the distance is seen a number of grey objects rapidly approaching, which, upon drawing closer, are recognized as a company of Boer cavalry. As they draw nearer, you can see that they are straining every nerve and urging their horses to the utmost speed. Waving their sabres aloft on they come, so that the audience involuntarily makes an effort to move from their seats in order to avoid being trampled under the horses.
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Swiss Village, No. 2 (1900) IMDb TMDB
Swiss Village, No. 2
director: James H. White
The scene opens by showing the village girls driving home a herd of cows, and shows the native peasantry of Switzerland returning from their daily occupation watching the herds. After driving the cattle to their shelter, the boys and girls congregate in front of the old barn and go through a native dance, to the amusement of the spectators. These pictures are marvelously clear and distinct, showing every feature of the participants.
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Boers Bringing in British Prisoners (1900) IMDb TMDB
Boers Bringing in British Prisoners
director: James H. White
Here we have a mixed company of Gordon Highlanders, Irish Fusilliers and English Lancers, as a group of prisoners taken to the rear by a troop of Boer Cavalry. The expression on their faces show who is the victor, and who is the vanquished. You can read in the dust and smoke-begrimed countenance of the prisoners, the story of their stubborn resistance to superior numbers before the surrender: while the Boers give expression to their feelings, by cheering and waving their hats in triumph as they pass.
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Naval Apprentices at Sail Drill on Historic Ship 'Constellation' (1900) IMDb TMDB
Naval Apprentices at Sail Drill on Historic Ship 'Constellation'
director: James H. White
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 picture is absolutely perfect photographically; also very thrilling, and makes a most interesting subject.