Short Doc Movies

Scenes from a series filmed for Charles Urban by mountain expert Frank Ormiston-Smith, including The Battle of the Snow, Ski Jumping in the Alps, and...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 25th, 1919.

The ascent of the spectacular needle Guglia Rudatis (2.202 meters), in the Italian Dolomites by a group of rock climbers. A group of six men leave a...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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

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

Starting from the Swiss village of Zermatt, two people and a guide make a perilous ascent of the Matterhorn. Local villagers mount a torchlight...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

"We have only one really tropic state in the good old U.S.A., and that is Florida, and so, just returning from the tropics of the Far East, Mr....

The first picture of the new Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel pictures recount Mr. Holmes' motor trip of the summer of 1913 through the more...

Travelogue released on July 22nd, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Mountain climbing with all its thrills near Lake O'Hara in Yoho National Park, British Columbia. The film begins on a busy street in Toronto with...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on February 24th, 1918.

A great variety of the Swiss snow sports are here shown. Commencing with toboganning round a steep circular descent, and next in increasing numbers...

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

Elephants are used to pull teak logs through thick jungle to a river.

Released on the 19th of February, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.