Short Documentary Movies

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Ceylon is the land of perpetual and exceeding beauty, her people picturesque in dress and quaint in personality, often amusing and always...

A pretty feature of life at the Handeck Inn on the renowned Grimsel route.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

An alpine ascent Monte Rosa glacier by a large group of mountaineers equipped with crampons and ice axes. The group ascends from the Gabiet lake to...

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

For his third picture in his series, Mr. Holmes takes his audience on a visit to our National Military Academy at West Point, there to study the...

Nice looking Travelogue takes us to the Northeast corner of Wyoming as we visit Yellowstone National Park.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on October 27th, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

En cordée is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Aiguillette D'argentière. It was directed by Jacques Berr in 1942 and...

A thrilling incident showing a climber ascending a cleft or chimney by hanging on with his finger tips and pushing his back and knees into opposite...

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

Tractor Harvesters at work in the San Joaquin Valley. A visit to Hopi House at the Grand Canyon.

Four roped men jump a crevasse and ascend through the seracs of the Mer de Glace using long ice axes. The shot belongs to a collection of scenes that...

Opening with sledge loads of holiday makers leaving the hotel shown afterwards careering along the roadway through beautiful winter landscape....

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue released on the 10th of July, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 16th of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.