1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith
Ice Work on the Glacier des Bossons
A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.
Midwife to the Upper Class
Sleighing Parties in Switzerland
Climber and Guides Camping Out
A woman shows off her trained dogs.
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
Party of Tourists Descending a Ladder
Grand Panorama from the Summit
A woman, who tried to smuggle goods under her clothes, is brought to an excise duty office for further inspection.
Une scène à l'octroi
Merry Boys and Girls in Snowy Switzerland
Following the successful ascent of Mont Blanc, the Warwick Trading Company expedition led by Frank Ormiston-Smith went on to film the ascent of the...
Climbing the Great Schreckhorn
King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.
The Coronation of Edward VII
Shovel Driving and Cripple Racing on Bear Rink
A fire has swept through Durland's Riding Academy in Manhattan. The fire has mostly died down, but firefighters are still at the scene, hosing down...
Burning of Durland's Riding Academy
A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an...
The Ascent of Mont Blanc
In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The...
Sure Cure for Indigestion
Match boy saves mother and baby from drunken husband.
Nabbed by the Nipper
A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!
The Colonel's Shower Bath
Ice Driving Race by Skaters
An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
One of the two oldest known films made in Poland, with the other being The Return of a Merry Fellow, also made in 1902.
Cabman's Adventure
Duffer Skating Club Doing Their Best
Some Difficulties in Alpine Climbing