Short Documentary Movies

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1. Jaffa from the Sea. The Port of Jerusalem. 2. Through the Rocks and Surf. The Syrian boatmen shooting the narrows. 3. The Landing Stage. Showing...

Released on April 1st, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 28th of February, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1905, featuring Eduard Spelterini, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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

Kandersteg, the highest mountain village on the Gemmi route is a delightful spot and the center of fine excursions in the mountain regions of the...

Tuesdays are days of great excitement in the quiet old town of Berne, when the whole population is bent on getting very much for very little.

"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....

Known also as 'The Crystal Ascension', the film chronicles an exploration of Mount Hood and its glaciers by a mountain-climbing party who explore the...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

An ascent of 'The Tooth' via the South-east Face. The film was made by Burge Bickford and Lyman Boyer. It features Jim Crooks leading Fred Beckey on...

Opening with sledge loads of holiday makers leaving the hotel shown afterwards careering along the roadway through beautiful winter landscape....

Released on the 10th of December, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

For his third picture in his series, Mr. Holmes takes his audience on a visit to our National Military Academy at West Point, there to study the...

Austria and the Alps is the title of a 18 minutes travelogue by Burton Holmes produced to be distributed by the Paramount. The travelogue consisted...

The train leaving the Schiedegg station and entering the Eiger tunnel en route for the station Eigerwand.