Short Documentary Movies

Travelogue released on September 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A scene of harvesting hay on the great winter playground. The group of busy reapers, with hand scythes, in the foreground, the Swiss maids who...

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

Travelogue of Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Sailing distance to Glacier National Park, Montana. Vimy Mountain overlooks National Parks on...

Showing the peasants in their quaint costumes, which are only donned on Sundays and Festivals.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

A mountain guide and a young woman make an ascent to Mount Sebastopol in New Zealand's Southern Alps. The couple leave from Mount Cook's Hermitage...

Austrian military detachment out for Ski practice, showing how the Ski may be used in crossing snow-covered and ice hardened surfaces with great...

In this Paramount-Burton Holmes Travelogue are seen the beautiful and the unusual things that are to be found in the Bahama Islands. The points of...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on October 30th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

In this trip Burton Holmes takes your patrons to Java, the richest island of the Dutch East Indies, and Batavia, its capital city, one of the most...

An alpine ascent around the snow-covered area of Monte Cevedale by a large group of mountaineers equipped with crampons and ice axes. The group...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on the 29th of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.