20th Century Movies

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on January 21st, 1918.

Danube upstream from Vienna, with its images of monasteries and castles. It's hard for an American to realize the age of civilization in Europe. This...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on January 28th, 1918.

Travelogue released on the 12th of June, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on November 16th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on the 5th of June, 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...

The film shows training maneuvers by the 'Fiamme Verdi' (Green Flames) brigade, instructed by the mountaineering military school of Aosta. The...

Travelogue released on July 22nd, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

Released on the 16th of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A scenic documentary record of a climb up to Mount Assiniboine, the 'American Matterhorn' in the Canadian Rockies.

Elephants are used to pull teak logs through thick jungle to a river.

"As you loll comfortably on the deck, your steamer approaches the Suez Canal and you enter this interesting stretch of water at Port Said. You land...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue released on December 18th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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...