20th Century Movies

Kandersteg, the highest mountain village on the Gemmi route is a delightful spot and the center of fine excursions in the mountain regions of the...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in November of 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they...

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.