Documentary Short Movies

Travelogue released on the 5th of June, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in February of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Released on October 20th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

Rock climbing on the "Cobbler". Awarded first prize by Michael Powell in the 1948 Scottish Amateur Film Festival

1901 film of the Mer de Glace, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

This traditionally ethnographic sequence film focuses on the negotiations betwen representatives of two families during a payment of bridewealth. In...

This Traveltalk series short visits Sydney, Australia and its harbour.

Released in 1901

In the spring of 2022, an international tourist group will make a day trip to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank to visit religious sites. But...

Travelogue released on the first of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on September 14th, 1919.

At a marine biology station, a clump of algae reveals polyps, stomachs with limbs, limbs with buds, buds with poison cells. This animal reproduces by...

The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...

A curious incident which happens in early summer when the cattle are taken to the high pastures for three months.

The film begins by showing images of the Holocaust, and stating that Adolf Hitler sanctioned the killing of 11 million people. This is followed by...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A leading Australian photographer interprets and photographs the recurring dreams of four refugees living on a housing estate in western Sydney with...