Short Doc Movies

Released in June of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for...

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

Released in 1930. Direction, production, writing & cinematography by Adam Krzeptowski

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

This Norwegian sport is much practiced by the Swiss youth as well as the visitors to the winter resorts. Many successful jumps (the unsuccessful...

Released in March of 1921. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on March 30th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A climbing expedition by a mountain guide and a woman to the summit of Mount Wedgwood, on a training climb in preparation for an attempt to scale...

...where the whole expedition, by the breaking of an ice cornice on the summit, escaped death by a hair's breadth. The miraculous escape is recorded...

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.

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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...

Released in April of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on March 28th, 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.