Short Documentary Movies

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

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...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released on July 20th, 1919.

Released in 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

Swiss lace is world famed, and much of the best of it is produced by the busy hands of the inhabitants of this pretty Swiss village.

Mountain climbing with all its thrills near Lake O'Hara in Yoho National Park, British Columbia. The film begins on a busy street in Toronto with...

"Taken from the Swiss side of the St. Bernard Pass, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, giving a magnificent view of the far-famed Hospice, which...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1905, featuring Eduard Spelterini, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The ascent of the spectacular needle Guglia Rudatis (2.202 meters), in the Italian Dolomites by a group of rock climbers. A group of six men leave a...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in July of 1902. Produced by William Nicholas Selig.

Travelogue released on November 13th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue released on the 29th of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

Travelogue released on the 10th of July, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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...