Alps Movies

1905, featuring Eduard Spelterini, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Excursion from the Catinaccio group, across the Alpe di Siusi, to the Sassolungo and to the Sella group. The Dolomites, less impressive in appearance...

The train leaving the Schiedegg station and entering the Eiger tunnel en route for the station Eigerwand.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The stalls with their keepers and stores of laces are being inspected by English and American tourists, who no doubt takeaway with them a goodly...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A group of tourists, including five women, croos the Mauvais Pas, a rocky passage equipped with a railing, next to the Mer de Glace Glacier. One of...

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

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

In the final season of the original 119-year-old Le Refuge de la Charpoua, hutkeeper of eight years, Sarah Cartier, and her two children, embrace the...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, 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...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

English-language, dubbed sound and partly re-edited version of Der Kampf ums Matterhorn. During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the...

A thrilling incident showing a climber ascending a cleft or chimney by hanging on with his finger tips and pushing his back and knees into opposite...

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

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith