Alps Mountains Movies

A post-WW2 story about the village largely involved in wine-making business. The peasants who claimed possessions of lands, woods, and churches after...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Hermann Perren, mountain guide, prepares the ascent of Dent du Requin with a companion. He checks the equipment necessary for any mountaineer, rope,...

Much nerve is required by those who participate in this sport as some of the curves of the course are most acute and dangerous, especially at the...

A record of the ascent of the Jungfrau by Frederick Burlingham accompanied by four mountain guides. The film starts with panoramics of the Eiger...

Released in 1917.

Released in 1901

In 1905, Félix Mesguich, a young camera operator of the Lumière Brothers, films in the Blumlisalp Glacier, Switzerland, one of the...

The ascent of the Jungfrau by the Urban Alpine Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, the pioneer mountaineering photograher and filmmaker, on...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1915, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The spectacular railroad panorama in the Alps, taken from a train passing through various tunnels, and over the great Wassen Loops.

Released in 1922.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A documentary about the Liechtenstein football team, one of the Europe's ultimate underdogs.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.