Early 20th Century Movies

"As you loll comfortably on the deck, your steamer approaches the Suez Canal and you enter this interesting stretch of water at Port Said. You land...

Released on the 19th of February, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on March 13th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on June 10th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

Released in December of 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the third of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Tractor Harvesters at work in the San Joaquin Valley. A visit to Hopi House at the Grand Canyon.

Released on the 17th of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A mountaineering tour on the Franz Josef Glacier, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. After leaving the Fox Glacier Hotel, two...

The great glacier of the Selkirks in the Canadian Switzerland is equivalent to thirty Switzerlands of the Overseas. In this picture you are...

Travelogue released on September 11th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The second release in the series picks up Mr. Holmes' fellow-travelers at the very brink of the Grand Canyon, just as a train has arrived at the El...

Travelogue released on September 18th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on March 19th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Known also as 'The Crystal Ascension', the film chronicles an exploration of Mount Hood and its glaciers by a mountain-climbing party who explore the...

Released on the 16th of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A Gaumont Mirror newsreel showing a party of climbers setting out to climb the Great Gable. They appear drinking from a mountain stream and climbing...

Travelogue released on December 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.