Early 1900s Movies

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property...

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the...

Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When...

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

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

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...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

In 1901, Argentine naval officer José María Sobral joins Otto Nordenskjöld’s Swedish scientific expedition to Antarctica....

During an ascent of Canigou, a traveler falls into a precipice, his body rolling to the bottom of the abyss on the glistening snow of the glacier....

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Austrian military detachment out for Ski practice, showing how the Ski may be used in crossing snow-covered and ice hardened surfaces with great...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A great variety of the Swiss snow sports are here shown. Commencing with toboganning round a steep circular descent, and next in increasing numbers...

Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the great novels of world literature. The documentary immerses itself in the very own cosmos,...