Short Documentary Movies

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

Vancouver is a veritable metropolis, a beautiful cosmopolitan city; perhaps the most English in all the entire Dominion of Canada. It is famous for...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 13th, 1918.

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

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

The first picture of the new Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel pictures recount Mr. Holmes' motor trip of the summer of 1913 through the more...

Released on July 30th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

The train leaving the Schiedegg station and entering the Eiger tunnel en route for the station Eigerwand.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on January 28th, 1918.

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...

Travelogue released on August 28th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 14th, 1918.

Scenes from a series filmed for Charles Urban by mountain expert Frank Ormiston-Smith, including The Battle of the Snow, Ski Jumping in the Alps, and...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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

Travelogue released on the 22nd of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.