Short Documentary Movies

Through an intimate memory shaped by ritual and inherited belief, Aavasam traces the quiet transformation of everyday customs and spaces as fluid...

"We have only one really tropic state in the good old U.S.A., and that is Florida, and so, just returning from the tropics of the Far East, Mr....

Released in November of 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.

It is not often that your patrons will get a chance to take a trip through a veritable Garden of Eden. On his trip Burton Holmes will show them many...

...From its terrace one gets a magnificent view down the Valley of the Bow River. The natural bathtub at the Hot Springs, the Government pool, free...

Travelogue released on the 10th of July, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released in June of 1914.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on December 21st, 1919.

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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 in March of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Travelogue released on November 11th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

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

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on August 31st, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

Travelogue released on the 8th of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Frank Ormiston-Smith, the pioneer mountaineering photograher and filmmaker, filmed in 1906 the ascent to several towers in the Cinque Torri area in...

Three mountaineers, including a woman, climb the l'Aiguille du Moine, in the Mont Blanc Massif departing from the Couvercle Shelter. Facing walls...