Alpes Movies

Released in 1901

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

For a century and a half, mountain images by their beauty have largely gained from its influence, its frequentation and its development. But they are...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Demonstrations of methods that can be employed to scale to great heights. A Pathe Baby film showing footage from different films of the Pathe...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The stalls with their keepers and stores of laces are being inspected by English and American tourists, who no doubt takeaway with them a goodly...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A rope of two mountaineers surveys the Argentière glacier making their way through crevasses and seracs. A film by René Moreau,...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take three days. They spent their nights at the Grands...

In September 1932, a party of climbers composed of Bruno Detassis, Gino Corrà and Nello Bianchini completed the first ascent of the Paganella...

A party of six hires a mountain guide to take them over increasingly vertical terrain in this one-reel short subject. When one of the men on the...

A mountaineering tour on a glacier in the Alps. The film follows a group of mountaineers as they leave the hostel. Then they climb up fixed ladders...