Short Doc Movies

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 20th, 1918.

This opens with a view of the upper falls and great viaduct of the mountain railway, showing ascending and descending cars, and then a close view of...

Grimsel was the scene of the Austrian-French conflict of 1799. It is now one of the most popular passes in the Alps.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on the 17th of June, 1918.

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

For his third picture in his series, Mr. Holmes takes his audience on a visit to our National Military Academy at West Point, there to study the...

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

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

A man and a woman climbing the Grinnell Point in Glacier National Park. They start from the Many Glacier Hotel and progress on an easy terrain first...

1906, produced by Charles Urban, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Tractor Harvesters at work in the San Joaquin Valley. A visit to Hopi House at the Grand Canyon.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Known also as 'The Crystal Ascension', the film chronicles an exploration of Mount Hood and its glaciers by a mountain-climbing party who explore the...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released on the 10th of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.