Alpen Movies

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...

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

Much nerve is required by those who participate in this sport as some of the curves of the course are most acute and dangerous, especially at the...

The train leaving the Schiedegg station and entering the Eiger tunnel en route for the station Eigerwand.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue released on August 28th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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...

En cordée is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Aiguillette D'argentière. It was directed by Jacques Berr in 1942 and...

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...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced...

A game of ice-hockey in progress in the Alps.

Showing eight views of the most difficult portions of the railway, including the steepest gradients, practically, hanging on to the sides of the...

This short film shows an alpine march of the young fascists of the federal command of Belluno to the Mario Vazzoler refuge. From there, a group of...