20th Century Movies

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The negative affects from ingesting "The Spirit of Wine" are demonstrated here through experiments on the Students of Northwestern University Medical...

Views of a party making the actual ascent of this famous mountain have a much greater interest than the usual scenic film. Commencing with the...

Travelogue released on the 22nd of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on November 13th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on July 20th, 1919.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 15th, 1919.

"This picture shows a party of ten, tied together with a rope, with their spiked shoes biting into the treacherous icy path, mounting slowly upward...

En cordée is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Aiguillette D'argentière. It was directed by Jacques Berr in 1942 and...

Travelogue released on the first of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on the 29th of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

"A pioneering Norweigan climbing film. The filming was made in 1918 by film photographer Gunnar Nilsen Vik. The film begins with some pictures of Ola...

A contrast between two kinds of attitudes to gay liberation in Adelaide.

Travelogue released on the 15th of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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...

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

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on September 28th, 1919.

Rock climbing on the "Cobbler". Awarded first prize by Michael Powell in the 1948 Scottish Amateur Film Festival

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on October 5th, 1919.