Short Documentary Movies

Released on July 27th, 1919.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Bioscoped from a motor. The center of fashion and society in the Bernese Oberland. The rendezvous of the most cosmopolitan crowd in Europe.

Showing hundreds of boys, girls and adults on skis descending a steep snow-covered bank.

Released on the 19th of February, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Opening with sledge loads of holiday makers leaving the hotel shown afterwards careering along the roadway through beautiful winter landscape....

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Exploration on the Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland. Starting from the station at Jungfraujoch we climb up toward the Glacier, which is 14 miles long and...

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

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

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

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

A crowd of a hundred boys rushing the position of another crowd, storming their adversaries with volleys of snowballs, finally driving the enemy from...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

The first picture of the new Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel pictures recount Mr. Holmes' motor trip of the summer of 1913 through the more...

Released in February of 1922. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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