Early 1900s Movies

A scene of harvesting hay on the great winter playground. The group of busy reapers, with hand scythes, in the foreground, the Swiss maids who...

This opens with a view of the upper falls and great viaduct of the mountain railway, showing ascending and descending cars, and then a close view of...

Several bouts are shown in this picture, and as the contestants frequently lift each other into mid air, and then throw, the effect is exciting and...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The chief event of the day at Grimsel Hospice.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

This film gives a fine panoramic view of this wonderful railway track through immense gorges and cuttings and snow baulks of from 15 to 20 feet high...

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...

Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the great novels of world literature. The documentary immerses itself in the very own cosmos,...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1905, 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...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.