Documental Movies

Tuesdays are days of great excitement in the quiet old town of Berne, when the whole population is bent on getting very much for very little.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on September 28th, 1919.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on November 23rd, 1919.

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...

A rope of two mountaineers surveys the Argentière glacier making their way through crevasses and seracs. A film by René Moreau,...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 27th, 1918.

Released on August 21st, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on November 6th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A game of ice-hockey in progress in the Alps.

Released on December 17th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Danube upstream from Vienna, with its images of monasteries and castles. It's hard for an American to realize the age of civilization in Europe. This...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

This film gives a fine panoramic view of this wonderful railway track through immense gorges and cuttings and snow baulks of from 15 to 20 feet high...

Surabaya, Java, is the busiest headquarters of the Dutch in the Far East. Here the white-clothed man from Holland has established the commercial...