Alpi Movies

1901 film of the Mer de Glace, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Documentary featuring the ascent of the Matterhorn (Cervino) completed in 1911 by Mario Piacenza along the guides of Valtournenche Joseph Gaspard and...

Mut (mountain in Bergamasque dialect) is a day in the mountain pastures, an allegory of a summer season in the mountain pastures that has been...

Released in 1901

A party of six hires a mountain guide to take them over increasingly vertical terrain in this one-reel short subject. When one of the men on the...

The goats of the Grimsel are almost as famous as the Hospice itself, and form a most attractive picture among the bleak and desolate surroundings.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1901

1901. Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Italian documentary on mountain climbing.

The first section shows the "crew" bestriding the bob-sledge and starting same down bill. The second section includes pictures of many sledge...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

In spring, the Swiss herdsman collects his cattle and drives the herds up the mountains to higher pasture. Here is shown a quiet valley, with...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1903, 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...

A thrilling incident showing a climber ascending a cleft or chimney by hanging on with his finger tips and pushing his back and knees into opposite...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith