Alps Mountains Range Movies

Released in July of 1902. Produced by William Nicholas Selig.

Released in 1915.

In 1941, under the Vichy regime, during the Nazi occupation, a team of six people crossed the Mont-Blanc massif. Leaving the Arve Valley with a month...

Released in May of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1901

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

Released in 1901

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...

Internationale Bergrettungstagung in Tirol 1948 is a documentary about mountain rescue that takes place in the Ötztal Alps. It was produced in...

Views of a party making the actual ascent of this famous mountain have a much greater interest than the usual scenic film. Commencing with the...

Released in 1939.

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

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an...

A winter ascent of Piz Bernina by Swiss mountain soldiers under the command of Major Charles Golay. The film also shows images of avalanche research,...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Presented as a kind of docu-fiction, the film shows training maneuvers by the young mountaineers of the Scuola Centrale Militare di Alpinismo...