Early 1900s Movies

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

This includes the arrival of the old stage, the mail coach and diligence, and a motor car.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

This Norwegian sport is much practiced by the Swiss youth as well as the visitors to the winter resorts. Many successful jumps (the unsuccessful...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A pretty feature of life at the Handeck Inn on the renowned Grimsel route.

Including several views of main streets with traffic, market scenes, steam tramways in Marientheresiaustrasse.

Showing the peasants in their quaint costumes, which are only donned on Sundays and Festivals.

This opens with a view of the upper falls and great viaduct of the mountain railway, showing ascending and descending cars, and then a close view of...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A curious incident which happens in early summer when the cattle are taken to the high pastures for three months.

1. Jaffa from the Sea. The Port of Jerusalem. 2. Through the Rocks and Surf. The Syrian boatmen shooting the narrows. 3. The Landing Stage. Showing...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the great novels of world literature. The documentary immerses itself in the very own cosmos,...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.