Short Documentary Movies

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

In spring, the Swiss herdsman collects his cattle and drives the herds up the mountains to higher pasture. Here is shown a quiet valley, with...

The goats of the Grimsel are almost as famous as the Hospice itself, and form a most attractive picture among the bleak and desolate surroundings.

A group of men shows the 'before and after' physical effects of a journey upon the Mount Aspiring area. Mount Aspiring (9,960 ft.), known as the...

Released on October 2nd, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on September 7th, 1919.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on December 7th, 1919.

Travelogue released in April of 1921. Written & produced by Burton Holmes.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

En cordée is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Aiguillette D'argentière. It was directed by Jacques Berr in 1942 and...

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...

Travelogue released on the 8th of July, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

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...

The great glacier of the Selkirks in the Canadian Switzerland is equivalent to thirty Switzerlands of the Overseas. In this picture you are...

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

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 6th, 1918.

Ceylon is the land of perpetual and exceeding beauty, her people picturesque in dress and quaint in personality, often amusing and always...