Alpen Movies

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Three mountaineers, including a woman, climb the l'Aiguille du Moine, in the Mont Blanc Massif departing from the Couvercle Shelter. Facing walls...

A thrilling incident showing a climber ascending a cleft or chimney by hanging on with his finger tips and pushing his back and knees into opposite...

Showing hundreds of boys, girls and adults on skis descending a steep snow-covered bank.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1922.

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

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

Travelogue released on August 28th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

"L'ascension du Mont Pelvoux" is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Mont Pelvoux. It was directed by André Bayard in 1922 and...

The two guides Adrien and Félix Veillon with the customer Rotschild climb the Argentine ridge in the Swiss canton of Valais. The film was so...

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

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...