Early 20th Century Movies

Travelogue released on June 10th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

A climbing expedition by a mountain guide and a woman to the summit of Mount Wedgwood, on a training climb in preparation for an attempt to scale...

1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A group of mountaineers ascend the Grossvenediger in the Austrian Tyrol in winter. The group starts from the Krimmler waterfalls and the Warnsdorfer...

Quebec stands 200 feet above the lower town, dominating the entire landscape. Along Duffern Terrace there runs the toboggan slide, which at night is...

Young Artie Hamilton gets expelled from college, and his angered father--a wealthy railroad baron--throws him out of the house. Artie tells his...

Released on April 1st, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 25th, 1919.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Elephants are used to pull teak logs through thick jungle to a river.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on October 19th, 1919.

Vancouver is a veritable metropolis, a beautiful cosmopolitan city; perhaps the most English in all the entire Dominion of Canada. It is famous for...

From Jaipur to Agra and Calcutta is a wonderful trip, and Burton Holmes shows some of the quaintest and queerest sights in the world, among them the...

Released in 1915, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 11th, 1919.

"L'ascension du Mont Pelvoux" is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Mont Pelvoux. It was directed by André Bayard in 1922 and...

From the shores of Lake Huron to the prairie capital of Manitoba is an interesting trip. Scenes shown are motorboating amid the Thirty Thousand...

Released on the 8th of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.