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James H. White

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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.

01-03-1872

Birthday

Pisces

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

2

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Nova Scotia, Canada

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

2 Works

producer

10 Works

director

227 Works

writer

0 Works

other

5 Works

Life of an American Fireman

Life of an American Fireman

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...
6.0

Year:

1903

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges Melies' , Porter uses animation, double exposure, and trick photography to illustrate the fairy's apparitions, Jack's dream, and the fast growing beanstalk.
5.9

Year:

1902