Early 20th Century Movies

"As you loll comfortably on the deck, your steamer approaches the Suez Canal and you enter this interesting stretch of water at Port Said. You land...

"A far-fetched, overdrawn story of two men who try to prove their courage and devotion to the same girl, by getting flowers she has expressed a...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on January 21st, 1918.

A man and a woman in a mountaineering tour on the Blackfoot Glacier in the Glacier National Park. They cross the glacier, negotiating big crevasses...

Released on May 4th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Four men walk accross the upper part of the Mer de Glace Glacier. All they walk unroped and using ice axes as a cane. The shot belongs to a...

At the heart of the eastern Alps, in the Niedere Tauern massif that rises in the Austrian state of Salzburg, soldiers undertake the tortuous ascent...

Released on July 6th, 1919.

A tour of Granada offers glimpses into the daily life of the 70,000 Granadans who once inhabited the city. Crossing the city from the Alhambra hill,...

Released in December of 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on November 23rd, 1919.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 1st, 1919.

Travelogue released on the 22nd of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

Released on the 19th of February, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on August 21st, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A mountaineering tour on the Franz Josef Glacier, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. After leaving the Fox Glacier Hotel, two...

Les Charmoz is a documentary about mountaineering that takes place on Aiguille Des Grands Charmoz. Produced in 1924.

A Gaumont Mirror newsreel showing a party of climbers setting out to climb the Great Gable. They appear drinking from a mountain stream and climbing...

Released on July 30th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.