Alpen Movies

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in April of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A scene of harvesting hay on the great winter playground. The group of busy reapers, with hand scythes, in the foreground, the Swiss maids who...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Documentary on mountain climbing in the Swiss and Italian Alps.

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...

The film shows a winter crossing attempt of the Bernina ridge by a team of Swiss military in a reconnaissance tour in April 1939. The commanders...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

"An early color film presented as 'Ascent to the Bernina Massif'. Two mountaineers break from the Forno hut and first climb the Punta Rasica and then...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...

Austria and the Alps is the title of a 18 minutes travelogue by Burton Holmes produced to be distributed by the Paramount. The travelogue consisted...

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

Much nerve is required by those who participate in this sport as some of the curves of the course are most acute and dangerous, especially at the...