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James H. White

Mar 1, 1872 - Nova Scotia, Canada

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.

Known For Credits

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie	1903	Life of an American Fireman	The Fire Chief
Movie	1902	Jack and the Beanstalk	Farmer

Crew

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