20th Century Movies

This gives a panorama of the Village of Isebwald and entrance to Interlaken from the deck of a steamer on Lake Brienz. The famous Geissbach falls...

A Gaumont Mirror newsreel showing a party of climbers setting out to climb the Great Gable. They appear drinking from a mountain stream and climbing...

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

The ascent of Mont Blanc in four Pathe Baby reels. The film is a short version of the 1907 'L'ascension du Mont Blanc'. It shows the ascent of Mont...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue released on the 6th of October, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on November 23rd, 1919.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Scenes: Royal Northwest Mounted Police in action; the commissioner; the prairies of Saskatchewan; glimpses of the Blackfoot Indian tribes; visiting...

Released on the 31st of December, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

Les Charmoz is a documentary about mountaineering that takes place on Aiguille Des Grands Charmoz. Produced in 1924.

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

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

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Bioscoped from a motor. The center of fashion and society in the Bernese Oberland. The rendezvous of the most cosmopolitan crowd in Europe.

Travelogue released on the 12th of June, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.