1900s Movies

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in November of 1920. 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.

Internationale Bergrettungstagung in Tirol 1948 is a documentary about mountain rescue that takes place in the Ötztal Alps. It was produced in...

An exceptional cinematographic document on Emilio Comici, shot in 1938 in Val Rosandra by a MGM operator. The documentary shows Comici with the...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1920, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...

The peculiarity of this waterfall, with its narrow funnel-shaped opening, from which, on to the jagged rocks the torrent dashes, is here portrayed in...

Female impersonator Julian Eltinge appears in the cast.

The Devil's Throne is an inaccessible summit that has never been successfully climbed. A team of local climbers, consisting of two men and a woman...

Tourists leaving the Bear Hotel, Kandersteg, to cross the Gemmi. Many ladies of the party are seen mounting the hardy ponies at the hotel front, and,...

A thrilling incident showing a climber ascending a cleft or chimney by hanging on with his finger tips and pushing his back and knees into opposite...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.