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Chamonix: the Mer de Glace. Descent. (1900)
Documentary · N/A
Four roped men descend through the seracs of the Mer de Glace. One of them falls and has to be hoisted. The shot belongs to a collection of scenes that were presented together as a kind of travelogue film under the title of 'Voyages animés' in a diorama pavilion in the Universal Exhibition of Paris of 1900. The mountaineering scenes in...
- Runtime
- 1m
Seeing Sights in London (1919)
Documentary
We look first at Westminster Abbey and the Towers of Parliament. And the sight-seeing only starts there as it continues to all the famous buildings of London.
- Runtime
- 14m
Down the Danube to Vienna (1916)
Documentary
Danube upstream from Vienna, with its images of monasteries and castles. It's hard for an American to realize the age of civilization in Europe. This Burton Holmes travelogue hints at it.
- Runtime
- 4m
Karakoram (1937)
Adventure · Documentary
Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for the trip to the end of the ascent. After a long approach walk through quasi-desert regions, then on a huge glacier, the caravan of 700 porters arrives at the foot of Hidden Peak. The expedi...
- Runtime
- 38m
- Cast
- Pierre Allain, Henry de Ségogne, Marcel Ichac
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