Drame sur les Glaciers de la Blumlisalp

0.0(0)1905—1

In 1905, Félix Mesguich, a young camera operator of the Lumière Brothers, films in the Blumlisalp Glacier, Switzerland, one of the first mountaineering films. A report of the recovery of the bodies of three mountaineers who fell into a crevasse. The film captures the shocking moment in which one of the dead mountaineers opens his eyes when he is hoisted from the edge of the crack. Although the film follows the true rescue expedition, it shows some scenes prepared by the camera. The film caused a big sensation when premiered in the Moulin Rouge in Paris.

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  • alps mountains
  • swiss alps
  • mountaineering
  • alpine climbing
  • alpes
  • alps

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  • FranceFR

    • Theatricalday & month of release unknown1 Jan 1905

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Drame sur les Glaciers de la Blumlisalp was released on 1 January 1905.

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