Early 20th Century Movies

Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian mountain guides take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards...

A group of mountaineers ascend the Grossvenediger in the Austrian Tyrol in winter. The group starts from the Krimmler waterfalls and the Warnsdorfer...

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...

"This noted place is due to rank high in history as the proving grounds of America's pluck. Every American man, woman and child should see this."...

A man and a woman in a mountaineering tour on the Blackfoot Glacier in the Glacier National Park. They cross the glacier, negotiating big crevasses...

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on the 16th of July, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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...

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

Travelogue released on the 14th of May, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on July 20th, 1919.

Released in 1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in February of 1922. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

At the heart of the eastern Alps, in the Niedere Tauern massif that rises in the Austrian state of Salzburg, soldiers undertake the tortuous ascent...

Released in 1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Released on July 6th, 1919.

Expert mountain-guide Maciste lives in the Dolomites. He dotes on his young nephew Hans, the illegitimate son of his sister, who died of a broken...

Released on the 13th of October, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.