Alpi Movies

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Showing hundreds of boys, girls and adults on skis descending a steep snow-covered bank.

The stalls with their keepers and stores of laces are being inspected by English and American tourists, who no doubt takeaway with them a goodly...

"A series of films taken during a difficult and dangerous ascent of the Jungfrau;, showing views of the climbers at an height of over 13,000 feet....

Klettern im Fels is an instructional documentary about rock climbing produced in 1945 by filmaker and producer Theo von Hörmann, producer of the...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Stephan, the son of an old-school mountain guide, is seduced by a city beauty. He leaves his mother, siblings, and girlfriend and travels to Zurich....

Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take three days. They spent their nights at the Grands...

Released in 1901

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1922.

A crowd of a hundred boys rushing the position of another crowd, storming their adversaries with volleys of snowballs, finally driving the enemy from...

Showing eight views of the most difficult portions of the railway, including the steepest gradients, practically, hanging on to the sides of the...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1901

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Jean des Bossons is a documentary-fiction which recounts the activities of a high mountain guide in 1947. Around Chamonix Mont-Blanc, the guide Jean...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.