1900s Movies

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Interlaken, as its name implies, is dependent to a large extent on the two beautiful lakes for much of its popularity. An interesting short panorama...

Huntley Film Archives film 1001785.

Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do...

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...

Released in 1917.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A modern reimagining of the trick film, combining the love of spectacle, the artist's process and the dark state of today's politics.

1904, 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...

Record of the 1938 German expedition to Nanga Parbat. In June 1938, the vanguard of the German expedition to the Himalayas, after many laborious...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The mountain guide and ski instructor Hans Turri has been hired by the tourist Gregory Milacz to make a route in the mountains. Both are caught by a...

Showing the peasants in their quaint costumes, which are only donned on Sundays and Festivals.

Tuesdays are days of great excitement in the quiet old town of Berne, when the whole population is bent on getting very much for very little.

Second part of the film 'River of ice', a mountaineering tour on Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand. After spending the night in the Deficance Hut,...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.