20th Century Movies

Released in 1917.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 3rd, 1918.

Quebec stands 200 feet above the lower town, dominating the entire landscape. Along Duffern Terrace there runs the toboggan slide, which at night is...

The ascent of the Jungfrau by the Urban Alpine Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, the pioneer mountaineering photograher and filmmaker, on...

"This shows the flock of goats being brought home -or rather following the shepherds home from the hillside Then the milking of the goats In the...

Second part of the film 'River of ice', a mountaineering tour on Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand. After spending the night in the Deficance Hut,...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

For his third picture in his series, Mr. Holmes takes his audience on a visit to our National Military Academy at West Point, there to study the...

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A man and a woman in a mountaineering tour on the Blackfoot Glacier in the Glacier National Park. They cross the glacier, negotiating big crevasses...

Travelogue released on the 28th of May, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 10th of December, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on April 1st, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 10th of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released in 1915, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on the 5th of June, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Four men walk accross the upper part of the Mer de Glace Glacier. All they walk unroped and using ice axes as a cane. The shot belongs to a...

1906, produced by Charles Urban, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith