Kleine Scheidegg
A mountain film set around the popular ski pass in the 1930s.
Scaling the Jungfrau
A record of the ascent of the Jungfrau by Frederick Burlingham accompanied by four mountain guides. The film starts with panoramics of the Eiger North Face from Kleine Scheidegg. The party begin the climb from the Jungfraujoch Station crossing the Jungfrau Firn and reaching the summit of the Jungfrau by the steep Roththal Sattel. Frederick Burlingham was a traveller cinematographer and one of the mountain film pioneers. Continuing the mountain film tradition established by Ormiston-Smith, Burlingham filmed several mountaineering films largely in Switzerland, taking mountain film in a new direction of immediacy and perceived peril. In the early history of factual filmmaking, Burlingham played a substantial role in developing the related genres of the mountaineering and the exploration film.
The Jungfrau Railway
Released in 1920, produced by Frederick Burlingham.
Climbing the Jungfrau
Released in 1915, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
Ascent of the Jungfrau
The ascent of the Jungfrau by the Urban Alpine Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, the pioneer mountaineering photograher and filmmaker, on september 24th, 1903. The film consists of 15 scenes and illustrates the whole ascent from Grindelwald through the Fieschier Glacier and the Rothal Sattel and culminates with a panorama from the summit. It was produced by the Charles Urban Trading Co., one year after the huge success of 'The ascent of Mont Blanc'. Charles Urban left the Warwick Trading Company in 1903 to form his own film business, and took with him many of the film-makers who had worked for Warwick, including Ormiston-Smith, who went on to make many more mountaineering films.
Jungfrau Electric Railway
The train leaving the Schiedegg station and entering the Eiger tunnel en route for the station Eigerwand.
Captain Spelterini's Balloon Trip Across the Jungfrau
1905, featuring Eduard Spelterini, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.