Short Documentary Movies

Travelogue released on the 8th of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on September 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

It is not often that your patrons will get a chance to take a trip through a veritable Garden of Eden. On his trip Burton Holmes will show them many...

...From its terrace one gets a magnificent view down the Valley of the Bow River. The natural bathtub at the Hot Springs, the Government pool, free...

Ceylon is the land of perpetual and exceeding beauty, her people picturesque in dress and quaint in personality, often amusing and always...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Distributed under the title of ‘Switzerland’ or ‘Playground of Europe’, the film consists of a collection of scenes filmed in...

Travelogue released on the first of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Shorten version of the film 'Snow flight' distributed by Warner Bros. The film was produced by Jerome Hill as 'a document of skiing according to the...

Released in November of 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for...

Released in 1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on the 10th of July, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A love letter to cinema and a personal reflection on loneliness. Segment from Fringe Hippo's anthology film "Elegy Apokalypto".

...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...

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

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith