Short Doc Movies

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The peculiarity of this waterfall, with its narrow funnel-shaped opening, from which, on to the jagged rocks the torrent dashes, is here portrayed in...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Britain's first complete rock climbing film, by Stanley Watson. A film about climbing in the Lakes. Norah Johnstone, a teacher at Keswick Grammar...

Released on September 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

Released in 1930. Direction, production, writing & cinematography by Adam Krzeptowski

Short version of 'Nanga Parbat' (1936), the record of the 1934 German expedition to Nanga Parbat, led by Willy Merkl and with the full backing of the...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on April 11, 1920. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on September 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released in January of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Distributed under the title of ‘Switzerland’ or ‘Playground of Europe’, the film consists of a collection of scenes filmed in...

Documentary on one of the first editions of the Trofeo Mezzalama, the highest ski mountaineering race in Europe, at more than 4,200 meters above sea...

A travelogue set in the jungles of Borneo.

Travelogue released on October 16th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Sound and shortened version of 'Im Kampf mit dem Berge', Arnold Fanck's second major mountaineering film, from 1921. The film follows two mountain...

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

Ceylon is the land of perpetual and exceeding beauty, her people picturesque in dress and quaint in personality, often amusing and always...