Short Documentary Movies

Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for...

Sound and shortened version of 'Im Kampf mit dem Berge', Arnold Fanck's second major mountaineering film, from 1921. The film follows two mountain...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

...From its terrace one gets a magnificent view down the Valley of the Bow River. The natural bathtub at the Hot Springs, the Government pool, free...

1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Presented as a kind of docu-fiction, the film shows training maneuvers by the young mountaineers of the Scuola Centrale Militare di Alpinismo...

A curious incident which happens in early summer when the cattle are taken to the high pastures for three months.

This exciting and somewhat dangerous sport has attained a popularity at all the Swiss winter resorts that is really remarkable. The film depicts in a...

1902, 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...

The ascent of the Matterhorn by the Hornli Ridge, filmed in July 1913 by Frederick Burlingham. The team, composed of Burlingham and four mountain...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1920, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.