Early 20th Century Movies

A short version of the film 'A la conquête des cimes' by René Moreau released for the domestic market in two Pathe Baby big reels. In...

Released in February of 1922. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 27th, 1918.

Released on July 6th, 1919.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The second release in the series picks up Mr. Holmes' fellow-travelers at the very brink of the Grand Canyon, just as a train has arrived at the El...

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

"We have only one really tropic state in the good old U.S.A., and that is Florida, and so, just returning from the tropics of the Far East, Mr....

Tractor Harvesters at work in the San Joaquin Valley. A visit to Hopi House at the Grand Canyon.

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

Released on December 14th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Second part of the film 'River of ice', a mountaineering tour on Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand. After spending the night in the Deficance Hut,...

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

"This picture shows a party of ten, tied together with a rope, with their spiked shoes biting into the treacherous icy path, mounting slowly upward...

Travelogue released on November 2nd, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the third of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Surabaya, Java, is the busiest headquarters of the Dutch in the Far East. Here the white-clothed man from Holland has established the commercial...