James H. White
Born: 1872-03-01 in Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 1944-01-01
Known For: Directing
Biography
James Henry White was a Canadian film pioneer, who worked as a director, producer, and cinematographer. He also appeared as an actor in several films. He was employed by the Edison Manufacturing Company, and directed over 500 short films, both fictional and documentary.
Filmography
2007
- Butterfly Dances ... (Director)
1917
- Down the Old Potomac ... (Director)
1910
- Frankenstein ... (Director of Photography)
- His Mother's Thanksgiving ... (Director)
- The Police Force of New York City ... (Director)
1903
- Life of an American Fireman as The Fire Chief
1902
- Jack and the Beanstalk as Farmer
- Panoramic View Near Mt. Golden on the Canadian Pacific R. R. ... (Director)
1901
- Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison ... (Director)
- Love in a Hammock ... (Director)
- President McKinley Reviewing the Troops at the Pan-American Exposition ... (Director)
- Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession ... (Director)
1900
- Naval Sham Battle at Newport ... (Director)
- Panorama of Eiffel Tower ... (Director)
- Paris exposition films ... (Director)
- A Storm at Sea ... (Director)
- Palace of Electricity ... (Director)
- Scene from the Elevator Ascending Eiffel Tower ... (Director)
- English Lancers Charging ... (Director)
- Swiss Village, No. 2 ... (Director)
- Champs de Mars ... (Director)
- Capture of Boer Battery by British ... (Director)
- Shanghai Street Scene No. 2 ... (Director)
- Charge of Boer Cavalry ... (Director)
- Battle of Mafeking ... (Director)
- Red Cross Ambulance on Battlefield ... (Director)
- Why Mrs. Jones Got a Divorce ... (Director)
- Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace ... (Director)
- Exploding a Whitehead Torpedo ... (Director)
- Canton River Scene ... (Director)
- Champs Elysees ... (Director)
- Why Jones Discharged His Clerks ... (Director)
- Scene in the Swiss Village at Paris Exposition ... (Director)
- Panoramic View of the Place de la Concorde ... (Director)
- Watermelon Contest ... (Director)
- Overland Express Arriving at Helena, Mont. ... (Producer)
- New Black Diamond Express ... (Director)
- Panoramic View of Newport ... (Director)
- Esplanade des Invalides ... (Director)
- Panorama of the Paris Exposition, from the Seine ... (Director)
- Grandma and the Bad Boys ... (Director)
- Panorama of the Moving Boardwalk ... (Director)
- Panoramic View of the Champs Elysees ... (Director)
- Panoramic View from the Moving Sidewalk at the Paris Exposition ... (Director)
- Discharging a Whitehead Torpedo ... (Director)
- Naval Apprentices at Sail Drill on Historic Ship 'Constellation' ... (Director)
- Hong Kong Wharf Scene ... (Director)
- Tourists Starting for Canton ... (Director)
- Breaking of the Crowd at Military Review at Longchamps ... (Director)
- Torpedo Boat 'Morris' Running ... (Director)
- Gun Drill by Naval Cadets at Newport Training School ... (Director)
- Panorama of Place de l'Opéra ... (Director)
- Gymnasium Exercises and Drill at Newport Training School ... (Director)
- Boers Bringing in British Prisoners ... (Director)
- Panorama of Gorge Railway ... (Director)
1899
- New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 2 ... (Director)
- Bicycle Trick Riding, No. 2 ... (Director)
- Fun in Camp ... (Director)
- Capture of Trenches at Candaba ... (Director)
- Admiral Dewey Leading Land Parade ... (Director)
- Admiral Dewey Receiving the Washington and New York Committees ... (Director)
- Admiral Dewey Landing at Gibraltar ... (Director)
- 2nd Special Service Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Parade and Embarkation ... (Director)
- Three Acrobats ... (Director)
- Strange Adventure of New York Drummer ... (Director)
- Trick Bears ... (Director)
- The Astor Tramp ... (Director)
- Filipinos Retreat from Trenches ... (Director)
- Troops at Evacuation of Havana ... (Director)
- Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene ... (Director)
- Admiral Dewey Taking Leave of Washington Committee on the U.S. Cruiser 'Olympia' ... (Director)
- Skirmish of Rough Riders ... (Director)
- A Wringing Good Joke ... (Director)
- Lower Falls, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park ... (Director)
- Colonel Funston Swimming the Bagbag River ... (Director)
- New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 1 ... (Director)
- The Diving Horse ... (Director)
- U.S. Cruiser 'Raleigh' ... (Director)
- Coaches Arriving at Mammoth Hot Springs ... (Director)
- Tenderloin at Night ... (Director)
- Casey at the Bat ... (Director)
- U.S. Troops and Red Cross in the Trenches Before Caloocan ... (Director)
- U.S. Infantry Supported by Rough Riders at El Caney ... (Director)
- Love and War ... (Director)
- Pilot Boats in New York Harbor ... (Director)
- Dewey Arch: Troops Passing Under Arch ... (Director)
- Shoot the Chutes Series ... (Director)
- Rout of the Filipinos ... (Director)
- Tourists Going Round Yellowstone Park ... (Director)
- Admiral Dewey Leading Land Parade, No. 2 ... (Director)
- Arabian Gun Twirler ... (Producer)
- Poker at Dawson City ... (Director)
- Battery K Siege Guns ... (Director)
- U.S. Cruiser 'Olympia' Leading Naval Parade ... (Director)
- 104th Street Curve, New York, Elevated Railway ... (Director)
- Advance of Kansas Volunteers at Caloocan ... (Director)
- Dewey Parade, 10th Pennsylvania Volunteers ... (Director)
- Morning Colors on U.S. Cruiser 'Raleigh' ... (Director)
1898
- Turkish Dance, Ella Lola ... (Director)
- Parade of Marines, U.S. Cruiser, 'Brooklyn' ... (Director)
- Ella Lola, a la Trilby ... (Director)
- California Limited, A.T. & S.F.R.R. ... (Director)
- Statue of Liberty ... (Director)
- Shooting Captured Insurgents ... (Director)
- Going Through the Tunnel ... (Director)
- South Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal. ... (Director)
- Troops Embarking at San Francisco ... (Director)
- After Launching ... (Director)
- Las Viga Canal, Mexico City ... (Director)
- Mount Tamalpais R.R., No. 1 ... (Director)
- Close View of the 'Brooklyn,' Naval Parade ... (Director)
- Ostriches Running, No. 1 ... (Director)
- Bull Fight, no. 3 ... (Director)
- Kanakas Diving for Money (Honolulu), No. 2 ... (Director)
- Troop Ships for the Philippines ... (Director)
- Train Hour in Durango, Mexico ... (Director)
- Union Iron Works ... (Director)
- Observation Train Following Parade ... (Director)
- Feeding Sea Gulls ... (Director)
- Cuban Ambush ... (Director)
- Launching, No. 2 ... (Director)
- Indian Day School ... (Director)
- Wash Day in Mexico ... (Director)
- Calf Branding ... (Director)
- Lassoing a Steer ... (Director)
- Launch of Japanese Man-of-War 'Chitosa' ... (Director)
- Mount Tamalpais R.R., No. 2 ... (Director)
- Japanese Sampans ... (Director)
- Eagle Dance, Pueblo Indians ... (Director)
- Dogs Playing in the Surf ... (Director)
- Victorious Squadron Firing Salute ... (Director)
- Landing Wharf at Canton ... (Director)
- Mount Taw R.R., No. 3 ... (Director)
- Procession of Floats ... (Director)
- Freight Train ... (Director)
- Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Ry. ... (Director)
- Sunday Morning in Mexico ... (Director)
- S.S. "Coptic" Running Against the Storm ... (Producer)
- The Fleet Steaming Up North River ... (Director)
- Reviewing the 'Texas' at Grant's Tomb ... (Director)
- Street Scene, San Diego ... (Director)
- Farmer Kissing the Lean Girl ... (Director)
- Fighting the Fire ... (Director)
- Native Daughters ... (Director)
- Cattle Leaving the Corral ... (Director)
- Parade of Chinese ... (Director)
- Wand Dance, Pueblo Indians ... (Director)
- Mexican Rurales Charge ... (Director)
1897
- Capsize of Lifeboat ... (Director)
- Giant Coal Dumper ... (Director)
- Buffalo Stockyards ... (Director)
- Arrest in Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal. ... (Director)
- Return of Lifeboat ... (Director)
- Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, Cal. ... (Director)
- Serpentine Dance - Annabelle ... (Director)
- Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory ... (Director)
- Police Patrol Wagon ... (Director)
- Launch of Surf Boat ... (Producer)
- Rescue - Resuscitation ... (Director)
- The First Sleigh-Ride ... (Director)
- Cattle Driven to Slaughter ... (Director)
- Buffalo Fire Department in Action ... (Director)
- Horses loading for Klondike, no. 9 ... (Director)
- Leander Sisters ... (Director)
- Seminary Girls ... (Director)
- Fast mail, Northern Pacific Railroad ... (Director)
- Loading baggage for Klondike, no. 6 ... (Director)
- Sutro Baths, No. 2 ... (Director)
- Pillow Fight ... (Director)
- Armour's Electric Trolley ... (Director)
- Sutro Baths, No. 1 ... (Director)
- Fishing Smacks ... (Director)
- Black Diamond Express, No. 1 ... (Director)
- Free-for-All race at Charter Oak Park ... (Director)
- Falls of Minnehaha ... (Director)
- Fisherman's Wharf ... (Director)
- First Avenue, Seattle, Washington, No. 8 ... (Director)
- Chicken Thieves ... (Director)
- Buffalo Police on Parade ... (Director)
- Stanford University, California ... (Director)
- Launch of Life Boat ... (Director)
- Lurline Baths ... (Director)
- Surf at Monterey ... (Director)
- Philadelphia Express, Jersey Central Railway ... (Director)
- Cupid and Psyche ... (Director)
- Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago ... (Director)
- Southern Pacific Overland Mail ... (Director)
- Boxing for Points ... (Director)
- Fifth Avenue, New York ... (Director)
- S.S. 'Coptic' at Dock ... (Director)
- Hotel Vendome, San Jose, Cal. ... (Director)
- Husking Bee ... (Director)
- S.S. 'Coptic' in the Harbor ... (Director)
- Hotel Del Monte ... (Director)
- The Sea Lions' Home ... (Director)
- Boat Wagon and Beach Cart ... (Director)
- S.S. 'Queen' Leaving Dock ... (Director)
- S.S. 'Williamette' Leaving for Klondike ... (Director)
- S.S. 'Coptic' Sailing Away ... (Director)
- Sheep Run, Chicago Stockyards ... (Director)
- S.S. 'Queen' Loading ... (Director)
1896
- The Burning Stable ... (Director)
- American Falls, from Incline R.R. ... (Director)
- Lone Fisherman ... (Director)
- The Morning Alarm ... (Director)
- Watermelon Contest ... (Director)
- Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance ... (Director)
- Feeding the Doves ... (Director)
- American Falls from Above, American Side ... (Director)
- Passaic Falls, New Jersey ... (Director)
- A Morning Bath ... (Director)
- Interrupted Lovers ... (Producer)
- Cock Fight ... (Director)
- Starting for the Fire ... (Director)
- Herald Square ... (Director)
- McKinley and Hobart Parade at Canton, O. ... (Director)
- Edison Drawn by 'World' Artist ... (Director)
- Little Egypt ... (Director)
- The Bad Boy and the Gardener ... (Director)
- Irish Way of Discussing Politics ... (Director)
- Shooting the Chutes ... (Director)
- Mounted Police Charge ... (Director)
- A Morning Alarm ... (Director)
- Going to the Fire ... (Director)
- Scene on Surf Ave., Coney Island ... (Director)
- Black Diamond Express ... (Director)
- Sea Beach Scene ... (Director)
- East Side Drive, No. 1 ... (Director)
- Mess Call ... (Director)
1894
- Annabelle Butterfly Dance ... (Director)