Short Doc Movies

Including several views of main streets with traffic, market scenes, steam tramways in Marientheresiaustrasse.

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...

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

Starting from the Swiss village of Zermatt, two people and a guide make a perilous ascent of the Matterhorn. Local villagers mount a torchlight...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on March 23rd, 1919.

A pretty feature of life at the Handeck Inn on the renowned Grimsel route.

Released in 1922.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Documentary on alpine refuges and the life of mountaineers. The film begins with images recreating vintage mountain climbers that end up spending a...

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

An ascent of 'The Tooth' via the South-east Face. The film was made by Burge Bickford and Lyman Boyer. It features Jim Crooks leading Fred Beckey on...

1916, directed by Frederick Burlingham.

Released in 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Filmed in the Colorado Rockies, this film portrays the dangerous sport of mountain climbing and shows special equipment needed, together with its...

Along New Zealand’s South Islands runs the mighty chain of the Southern Alps, where large and beautiful glaciers and Ice-falls abound among the...

This short film shows an alpine march of the young fascists of the federal command of Belluno to the Mario Vazzoler refuge. From there, a group of...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Klettern im Fels (in English, "Rock Climbing") is a German silent documentary about rock climbing. It was directed by the cameraman Hermann Schadock...