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James H. White (James Henry White) was born on 29 February, 1872 in Nova Scotia, Canada, is a director,producer,cinematographer. Discover James H. White's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As James Henry White
Occupation director,producer,cinematographer
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 29 February 1872
Birthday 29 February
Birthplace Nova Scotia, Canada
Date of death 1944
Died Place 1944
Nationality Canada

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His wife is Pauline A. Dede (1900 - ?)

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James H. White Net Worth

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1872

Born in the Canadian Maritime province of Nova Scotia in 1872, he was a 22-year-old gramophone salesman when he went to work at a kinetescope operation in Boston in 1894. The film-viewing parlor was run by brothers Andrew M. and George C. Holland, entrepreneurs to whom Thomas A. Edison leased the commercial rights to exploit his invention. Though not a true motion picture projector, Edison's kinetoscope ran a strip of perforated film encased in a cabinet over a light source, which was viewed by a single individual through a viewing screen by means of a shutter. White and fellow Holland employee Charles Webster toured cities in the US with kinetoscopes, but White went back to peddling gramophones when the popularity of the kinetoscope declined as its novelty wore off. Then came the Vitascope, a 35mm film projector developed by Thomas Armat and C.

1896

Canadian-American filmmaker James H. White was one of the pioneers of early cinema, the man who filmed the famous short The Kiss (1896).

Francis Jenkins to which Edison bought the rights in 1896. Film exhibition in a theater was now a reality. While still employed by the Holland Bros. ' Kinetoscope Co. partners Norman Raff and Frank Gammon, White took a position with Edison and became a producer of films for the Vitascope as well as serving as a projectionist.

Edison terminated his business relationship with Raff and Gammon at the end of 1896, but White remained with him as head of the Kinetograph department. He and cameraman William Heise produced the Vitascope films before he took off for a foreign trip with cameraman W. Bleckyrden, an Englishman, to film the Orient. They filmed their journey west across America, sailing to Hawaii and then on to Japan and China.

1898

By the time White had returned to the US in May 1898, he was very ill, which prevented him from filming the Spanish-American War.

1900

When he recovered he began making films again, and traveled to France in 1900 to film the Paris Exposition. In November of that year he hired Edwin S. Porter to make fiction films while White made "actualities" and newsreels.

1901

He was in Buffalo, NY, in September 1901 filming the Pan-American Exposition when President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on September 5.

1902

After making one more actuality in 1902, White retired from filmmaking, though he did make a short film in England in 1910, A Yorkshire School (1910).

1903

White moved to London in 1903 to oversee Edison's movie and phonograph businesses. After becoming the National Phonograph Co.