Early 20th Century Movies

Sounded version of the 1928 film 'Der Kampf ums Matterhorn'. The added sound track included music composed by Schmidt-Boelckeb and dubbed dialogs by...

Travelogue documenting extremely isolated areas in Switzerland between Bernese Alps and the Rhone River.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on September 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on April 11, 1920. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

A film record of a Soviet expedition to Pamir, not to be confused with Krysha Mira, a different 1928 expedition film also about Pamir, directed by...

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

Released in January of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A travelogue set in the jungles of Borneo.

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...

Travelogue released on October 16th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on September 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A record of the second British Everest expedition showing the journey from Darjeeling to Tibet, activities of the Tibetans, and the climb itself. The...

"We have only one really tropic state in the good old U.S.A., and that is Florida, and so, just returning from the tropics of the Far East, Mr....

...From its terrace one gets a magnificent view down the Valley of the Bow River. The natural bathtub at the Hot Springs, the Government pool, free...

On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

Released in June of 1914.

Released in March of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.