1900s Movies

This exciting and somewhat dangerous sport has attained a popularity at all the Swiss winter resorts that is really remarkable. The film depicts in a...

Frank Ormiston-Smith, the pioneer mountaineering photograher and filmmaker, filmed in 1906 the ascent to several towers in the Cinque Torri area in...

Four roped men descend through the seracs of the Mer de Glace. One of them falls and has to be hoisted. The shot belongs to a collection of scenes...

Including several views of main streets with traffic, market scenes, steam tramways in Marientheresiaustrasse.

Three mountaineers, including a woman, climb the l'Aiguille du Moine, in the Mont Blanc Massif departing from the Couvercle Shelter. Facing walls...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on the 29th of July, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Story of Annette Kellerman, the international swimming vaudeville and silent screen star whose life story inspired the MGM classic Million Dollar...

Released on the 13th of August, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Elephants are used to pull teak logs through thick jungle to a river.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

In this Paramount-Burton Holmes Travelogue are seen the beautiful and the unusual things that are to be found in the Bahama Islands. The points of...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on the 10th of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on December 18th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Austrian military detachment out for Ski practice, showing how the Ski may be used in crossing snow-covered and ice hardened surfaces with great...

Travelogue released on July 22nd, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The world-famed Simmenthal cattle, bred by Herr Rebmann, are seen leaving the valley for the summer pastures on the Grimmalp. The herds are...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.