Documental Movies

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on March 23rd, 1919.

A quiet village scene of pleasing restfulness, permitting us to see how the Swiss villagers maintain their reputation as regular Churchgoers. The old...

A group of men shows the 'before and after' physical effects of a journey upon the Mount Aspiring area. Mount Aspiring (9,960 ft.), known as the...

A mountaineering tour on a glacier in the Alps. The film follows a group of mountaineers as they leave the hostel. Then they climb up fixed ladders...

A game of ice-hockey in progress in the Alps.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on November 6th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

"L'ascension du Mont Pelvoux" is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Mont Pelvoux. It was directed by André Bayard in 1922 and...

Released on March 19th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The negative affects from ingesting "The Spirit of Wine" are demonstrated here through experiments on the Students of Northwestern University Medical...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on October 9th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

For over a hundred years, Turtagrø in Sogn has been a mountain climbing center in Jotunheimen. The film photographer Gunnar Nilsen-Vig was...

A rope of two mountaineers surveys the Argentière glacier making their way through crevasses and seracs. A film by René Moreau,...

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

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 6th, 1918.

Travelogue released in April of 1921. Written & produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on November 11th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on September 11th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The great glacier of the Selkirks in the Canadian Switzerland is equivalent to thirty Switzerlands of the Overseas. In this picture you are...