Alpes Movies

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Paragot and Bérardini: two climbers who fill all climbing enthusiasts with admiration. In Fontainebleau, Saussois, the Alps, the Andes, the...

Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian mountain guides take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards...

July 1956: like every summer, the actor and cellist Maurice Baquet temporarily deserts the stage and the cinema studios to go to Chamonix where the...

Lucien Berardini and Edmond Denis are two mountaineers who took part in the French expedition to Aconcagua (Andes Mountains) in 1954. Both suffered...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

The goats of the Grimsel are almost as famous as the Hospice itself, and form a most attractive picture among the bleak and desolate surroundings.

A rope of two mountaineers surveys the Argentière glacier making their way through crevasses and seracs. A film by René Moreau,...

This is an excellent and spirited picture of fine quality depicting the international curling contests in Switzerland, showing the Scotch champion...

In 1910, Arrigo Frusta and the operator Giovanni B. Vitrotti took the camera up to the 4000 meters high of the Mont Blanc chain to make three short...

The two guides Adrien and Félix Veillon with the customer Rotschild climb the Argentine ridge in the Swiss canton of Valais. The film was so...

1901, 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...

Also showing Cortina mountain and general surroundings.

Scenes from a series filmed for Charles Urban by mountain expert Frank Ormiston-Smith, including The Battle of the Snow, Ski Jumping in the Alps, and...