Alpi Movies

The two guides Adrien and Félix Veillon with the customer Rotschild climb the Argentine ridge in the Swiss canton of Valais. The film was so...

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...

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...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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...

The legend says that the summit of Mont Blanc is covered in gold. This ancestral belief has obsessed Jacques Balmat, a mountain guide, from his...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

"A rock climbing traverse in the Gastlosen Massif. Arrival of the train to Saanenmöser, three men walk to reach the wall. Crossing the rock face...

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

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

To commemorate the Anniversary of the Unspunnen Fete of 1815, held at Unspunnen, near Interlaken. Order of the Procession : 1-Twenty-two girls in...

Italian documentary on mountain climbing.

Showing lady and gentleman climbers with guides negotiating difficult situations until finally their progress is stopped by a cow in their path which...

A mountaineering tour on a glacier in the Alps. The film follows a group of mountaineers as they leave the hostel. Then they climb up fixed ladders...

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

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.