Frederick Burlingham

Production · Directing · Acting · Crew

Born January 18, 1877, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Frederick Harrison Burlingham was an American journalist, explorer, cinematographer, and producer of numerous travelogues in the silent era. His most notable works are his films depicting Alpine landscapes and his mountain-climbing expeditions in Europe between 1913 and 1918, his explorations of Borneo in 1920, and his excursions to various sites in the United States and Canada in the early 1920s. He was also an accomplished still photographer and book author, publishing in 1914 How to Become an Alpinist, which is illustrated with his photographs. Burlingham initially produced films while working in London for the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, but he later developed his films independently and released them under contract with licensed distributors.

Filmography

• 1924A Wedding Feast Among the Borneo Dayaks — Producer
• 1924An Alpine Ride Up the Strasserhorn — Producer
• 1924An Arctic Hike on the Great Aletsch Glacier — Producer
• 1924Cataracting Around Niagara — Producer
• 1924Down the Crater of Vesuvius — Producer
• 1924From Montreux to the Bernese Alps — Producer
• 1924Jungle Belles of Borneo — Producer
• 1924Memories of the Alpine Republic — Producer
• 1924Monkey Land — Producer
• 1924Mont Blanc — Producer
• 1924Paradising on the Italian Lakes — Producer
• 1924Pelican Island — Producer
• 1924Quaint Berne, the Swiss Capital — Producer
• 1924Sky Trails Above Lake Lucerne — Producer
• 1924The Dizzy Land of William Tell — Producer
• 1924The Island of Surprise — Producer
• 1924The Lure of the South Seas — Producer
• 1924Winter in the Engadine — Producer
• 1923Our Playground of the Pacific — Producer
• 1923Wonder Spa of the Alps — Producer
• 1922Across the St. Gothard Alps — Producer
• 1922Way Down Upon the Suwanee River — Producer
• 1921Bath, the Famous British Spa — Producer
• 1921Chamonix, France; or, About Mont Blanc — Producer
• 1921Explorations on the Great Gletsch Glacier — Producer
• 1921Mediterranean Scenes — Producer
• 1921Perilous Ascent of the Zinal-Rothorn — Producer
• 1921The Italian Lakes — Producer
• 1921The Stanserhorn Railway — Cinematography
• 1921Wildest Wales — Producer
• 1920Kilawea Volcano Eruptions — Producer
• 1920The Jungfrau Railway — Producer
• 1919Down the Strand in London — Producer
• 1919Winter Sports at St. Moritz — Producer
• 1918Allied War Heroes Arrive in Switzerland — Producer
• 1918Facing Death on the Blumlisalp — Producer
• 1918Lovely Lucerne — Producer
• 1918Scrambles in the High Alps — Producer
• 1918The Gornergrat Railway — Producer
• 1918The Pilatus Railway — Producer
• 1918The Riviera of Lac Leman — Producer
• 1918Unknown Switzerland — Producer
• 1916La Suisse inconnue. La vallée de Loetschenthal — Director
• 1915Rock Climbing in North Wales — Director
• 1915Scaling the Jungfrau — Self, Director, Cinematography
• 1915The Ascent of Mont Blanc — Self, Director
• 1914Adventures on the Roof of the World — Self, Director
• 1913A Tragedy in the Alps — Director
• 1913Descent into the Crater of Vesusvius — Director, Cinematography
• 1913Europe's Winter Playground — Director
• 1913The Ascent of the Matterhorn — Self, Director
• A Borneo Venice — Producer
• Ascent of the Matterhorn — Producer