1900s Movies

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on March 18th, 1918.

The legend says that the summit of Mont Blanc is covered in gold. This ancestral belief has obsessed Jacques Balmat, a mountain guide, from his...

Released on the 9th of November, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Rock climbing on the "Cobbler". Awarded first prize by Michael Powell in the 1948 Scottish Amateur Film Festival

A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an...

Released on February 23rd, 1919.

Travelogue released on September 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on November 27th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on December 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A scene of harvesting hay on the great winter playground. The group of busy reapers, with hand scythes, in the foreground, the Swiss maids who...

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

Travelogue of Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Sailing distance to Glacier National Park, Montana. Vimy Mountain overlooks National Parks on...

Much nerve is required by those who participate in this sport as some of the curves of the course are most acute and dangerous, especially at the...

Showing the peasants in their quaint costumes, which are only donned on Sundays and Festivals.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on December 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A mountain guide and a young woman make an ascent to Mount Sebastopol in New Zealand's Southern Alps. The couple leave from Mount Cook's Hermitage...