Early 20th Century Movies

Released on July 30th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

"The ascent of the Aiguilles Ravanel and Mummery", climbed by young guides in cycling pants: The brothers Armand Charlet and Georges Charlet, Arthur...

Released on the 23rd of July, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Opening with sledge loads of holiday makers leaving the hotel shown afterwards careering along the roadway through beautiful winter landscape....

A climbing expedition by a mountain guide and a woman to the summit of Mount Wedgwood, on a training climb in preparation for an attempt to scale...

Released on the 13th of August, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released in 1920, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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...

David Gordon is in love and engaged to be married to Kate Nugent. But the sinister figure of Austen Hawke, Gordon's rival, threatens to eclipse the...

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

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

The ranger's activity mainly centered on mapping the national forests, creating safe trails, giving out cattle and sheep permits, and protecting the...

Released on the 10th of December, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on March 18th, 1918.

The official record of Mallory and Irvine's 1924 expedition. When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine attempted to reach the summit of Everest in 1924...

1921, written & produced by Burton Holmes.

...where the whole expedition, by the breaking of an ice cornice on the summit, escaped death by a hair's breadth. The miraculous escape is recorded...

Released on March 13th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released in April of 1921. Written & produced by Burton Holmes.

After a mountaineer is killed attempting to climb a difficult mountain, his son dreams of conquering the peak that has defeated his father. But his...