Short Doc Movies

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on March 30th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Presented as a kind of docu-fiction, the film shows training maneuvers by the young mountaineers of the Scuola Centrale Militare di Alpinismo...

Released on the 16th of July, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Along New Zealand’s South Islands runs the mighty chain of the Southern Alps, where large and beautiful glaciers and Ice-falls abound among the...

Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for...

Frederick Burlingham visits Vesuvius and climbs down into the crater accompanied by two Italian guides. Contains some nice actuality of Pompeii and...

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...

Above the Clouds in Rainier National Park shows a two-day climb from Paradise Inn to the summit of Mt. Rainier. The film was produced by the Kodak...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

The second release in the series picks up Mr. Holmes' fellow-travelers at the very brink of the Grand Canyon, just as a train has arrived at the El...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Commandant Patrick Hughes was one of the officers in command in the Louth and Meath area during the 1916 rising. He and his other commanders lead...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on September 14th, 1919.

The ascent of the Matterhorn by the Hornli Ridge, filmed in July 1913 by Frederick Burlingham. The team, composed of Burlingham and four mountain...

A travelogue set in the jungles of Borneo.