1900s Movies

Scenes from a series filmed for Charles Urban by mountain expert Frank Ormiston-Smith, including The Battle of the Snow, Ski Jumping in the Alps, and...

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

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 13th, 1918.

Travelogue released on the 22nd of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Swiss lace is world famed, and much of the best of it is produced by the busy hands of the inhabitants of this pretty Swiss village.

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

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

Released on the 13th of October, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Scenes: Royal Northwest Mounted Police in action; the commissioner; the prairies of Saskatchewan; glimpses of the Blackfoot Indian tribes; visiting...

An old film about the mountains of I Denti della Vecchia, a mountain group in the Lugano Pre-Alps, between Switzerland (Val Colla) and Italy...

The great glacier of the Selkirks in the Canadian Switzerland is equivalent to thirty Switzerlands of the Overseas. In this picture you are...

1921, written & produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on September 18th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Richard Wellington leads Western State Collegers from Gunnison up to Gothic Mountain in the Elk Mountains, Colorado. The film is an episode of the...

Travelogue released on the 5th of March, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A film by Richard 'Dick' Leonard produced by the American Alpine Club about mountaineering in Sierra Nevada (California). Richard Manning Leonard was...

The negative affects from ingesting "The Spirit of Wine" are demonstrated here through experiments on the Students of Northwestern University Medical...

Released on January 12th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on January 19th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.