The Ascent of Mont Blanc (1915)
Synopsis
The ascent of Mont Blanc filmed by Frederick Burlingham in August 1915. A party composed by Burlingham's wife and several guides from Chamonix, climb the Mont Blanc by the normal route of Grands Mulets. 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.
Release Date: 1915-08-01
Runtime: 12 minutes
Director: Frederick Burlingham
Top Cast
- Madame Frederick Burlingham as Self
- Emile Ducroz as Self
- Olivier Ducroz as Self
- Jean Cachat as Self
- René Claret Tournier as Self
- George Simond as Self
- Leon Couttet as Self
- Frederick Burlingham as Self
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