Short Documentary Movies

Travelogue released on December 18th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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...

Released in December of 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.

An alternative version of the film 'Southern Peaks', shortened in this case to be included in an episode of the series 'Glimpses of New Zealand'....

A group of men shows the 'before and after' physical effects of a journey upon the Mount Aspiring area. Mount Aspiring (9,960 ft.), known as the...

Scenes: Royal Northwest Mounted Police in action; the commissioner; the prairies of Saskatchewan; glimpses of the Blackfoot Indian tribes; visiting...

William J. Oliver filmed the ascent of Mount Tupper in the Glacier National Park by the famous Swiss mountain guide Edward Feuz accompanied by his...

Released on the 24th of July, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

In an alpine ascent with two customers, a mountain guide hears a distress call from another roped party. After guiding the couple he accompanies to...

"During the 1927, AGM Geddes on behalf of the Huts Committee, gave the report on the progress made on the completion of the Club's first hut, the Fay...

A winter vintage ascent to Mount Ruapehu by a large group of mountaineers composed of about 11 men and women. Mount Ruapehu, 2797 meters high, is an...

The two guides Adrien and Félix Veillon with the customer Rotschild climb the Argentine ridge in the Swiss canton of Valais. The film was so...

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...

A climbing expedition by a mountain guide and a woman to the summit of Mount Wedgwood, on a training climb in preparation for an attempt to scale...

The great glacier of the Selkirks in the Canadian Switzerland is equivalent to thirty Switzerlands of the Overseas. In this picture you are...

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,...

Travelogue released on June 10th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

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...

The second release in the series picks up Mr. Holmes' fellow-travelers at the very brink of the Grand Canyon, just as a train has arrived at the El...

Travelogue released on the 5th of March, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.