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.
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Filmography 40
Life of an American Fireman
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory
Jack and the Beanstalk
Seminary Girls
Interrupted Lovers
A Morning Bath
Feeding the Doves
Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance
Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene
Panorama of Eiffel Tower
Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
Shooting Captured Insurgents
Return of Lifeboat
Lone Fisherman
The Morning Alarm
Bicycle Trick Riding, No. 2
Horses loading for Klondike, no. 9
Shooting the Chutes
Ella Lola, a la Trilby
Giant Coal Dumper
The Burning Stable
The First Sleigh-Ride
American Falls from Above, American Side
Mess Call
Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace
Champs de Mars
Edison Drawn by 'World' Artist
Mounted Police Charge
Fifth Avenue, New York
Going to the Fire
Troop Ships for the Philippines
Arabian Gun Twirler
Fast mail, Northern Pacific Railroad245 credits on file
Connected to James 2
Directors from Canada 4
About this person
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 as Production Head from 1896 to 1902, and directed over 500 short films, both fictional and documentary often with no functional story or script, just scenes or vignettes. White proved prolific and tried to be lyrical in some of his short films, for example Return of a Lifeboat (1897) and A Storm at Sea (1900) the latter of which was shot on a passenger ship with the camera catching some of the glimmer from the sun.
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