1900s Movies

A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family...

Travelogue released on December 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 18th, 1919.

Released on the 8th of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

An alpine ascent Monte Rosa glacier by a large group of mountaineers equipped with crampons and ice axes. The group ascends from the Gabiet lake to...

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

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1922.

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...

Travelogue released on July 22nd, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The true story behind Arsène Lupin, a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc, first...

An alpine ascent around the snow-covered area of Monte Cevedale by a large group of mountaineers equipped with crampons and ice axes. The group...

Starting from the Swiss village of Zermatt, two people and a guide make a perilous ascent of the Matterhorn. Local villagers mount a torchlight...

Interlaken, as its name implies, is dependent to a large extent on the two beautiful lakes for much of its popularity. An interesting short panorama...

A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

This includes the arrival of the old stage, the mail coach and diligence, and a motor car.