Early 20th Century Movies

Travelogue released on October 9th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 20th of March, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

Travelogue released on the 10th of July, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Frank Ormiston-Smith, the pioneer mountaineering photograher and filmmaker, filmed in 1906 the ascent to several towers in the Cinque Torri area in...

Released on March 25, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

Released on March 9th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

Four roped men jump a crevasse and ascend through the seracs of the Mer de Glace using long ice axes. The shot belongs to a collection of scenes that...

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

Released on the sixth of March, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on October 20th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

Surabaya, Java, is the busiest headquarters of the Dutch in the Far East. Here the white-clothed man from Holland has established the commercial...

A record of the ascent of the Jungfrau by Frederick Burlingham accompanied by four mountain guides. The film starts with panoramics of the Eiger...

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,...

Released on March 13th, 1916. 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...

Released in December of 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.

In this trip Burton Holmes takes your patrons to Java, the richest island of the Dutch East Indies, and Batavia, its capital city, one of the most...