Documentary Short Movies

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the black bear.

In this Paramount-Burton Holmes Travelogue are seen the beautiful and the unusual things that are to be found in the Bahama Islands. The points of...

Dancer Nonoko Sato at Gallery Kaos No Ma in Kyoto. Shot in ambient light on 30 year old Kodachrome and developed in Caffenol, each frame of the film...

Sanjay Verma was six months old when the Bhopal Gas Tragedy took seven members of his family. He was left with his 13 year old brother Sunil and 10...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Showing hundreds of boys, girls and adults on skis descending a steep snow-covered bank.

A journey to an island in the English Channel in pursuit of summertimes gone by.

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1901

Travelogue released on the 15th of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released in 1901

"Taken from the Swiss side of the St. Bernard Pass, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, giving a magnificent view of the far-famed Hospice, which...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 13th, 1918.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1901

This short documentary looks at the animated art of Lotte Reiniger. We are taken through a demonstration by Lotte herself on the way she cut out,...

Travelogue released on November 6th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Documentary about the extraction and manufacture of charcoal, in Pompeu, Minas Gerais, focusing on charcoal burners in action, their lives,...

In this documentary nature short, we are introduced to the animal inhabitants of a mountain valley, as seen through the eyes of a baby moose, named...