Alpen Movies

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...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1922.

The mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian mountain guides take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1901 film of the Mer de Glace, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The climbers Jean Jacques and André Lambert, accompanied by the photographer Jean Lozeron, climb the great ridge of Salève, in...

The mountain guide and ski instructor Hans Turri has been hired by the tourist Gregory Milacz to make a route in the mountains. Both are caught by a...

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...

1901. Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A crowd of a hundred boys rushing the position of another crowd, storming their adversaries with volleys of snowballs, finally driving the enemy from...

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...

Showing hundreds of boys, girls and adults on skis descending a steep snow-covered bank.

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

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

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith