Short Doc Movies

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

Released on the sixth of March, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Bioscoped from a motor. The center of fashion and society in the Bernese Oberland. The rendezvous of the most cosmopolitan crowd in Europe.

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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...

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

Travelogue released on the 29th of July, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on the 15th of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The ascent of Mont Blanc in four Pathe Baby reels. The film is a short version of the 1907 'L'ascension du Mont Blanc'. It shows the ascent of Mont...

"Taken from the Swiss side of the St. Bernard Pass, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, giving a magnificent view of the far-famed Hospice, which...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on the 17th of June, 1918.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on March 18th, 1918.