Documentary Short Movies

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A film being photographed from the front of the engine. A grand view of the snow-clad peaks of this fine range of mountains is depicted from an...

Released in 1901

Emily Grodin is an autistic woman who spoke minimally for a significant part of her life, until she had a breakthrough and began to express herself...

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...

Dancer Nonoko Sato at Gallery Kaos No Ma in Kyoto. Shot in ambient light on 30 year old Kodachrome and developed in Caffenol, each frame of the film...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A picture of life in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in the mid 1960s, social, commercial and recreational.

Released in 1901

Released in 1920, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Two children are directed by a cinemaker.

Released in 1901

One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver decides to create a totem pole in his son's memory and...

Frei Gualter is sent by S. Francisco de Assis to Guimarães around 1213. The devotion to this franciscan friar started to rise and in 1577 the...

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

Fly-on-the-wall documentary footage of a film crew shooting a horror scene in Mumbai.

This film discusses conditions in the Soviet Union, including party activity and influence, the shortage of consumer goods, the roles of children and...