Billy Bitzer Movies

A fictionalized account of the Hatfields and the McCoys.

The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially...

The formal name of the peep show machine was the Mutoscope -- at least when it was manufactured by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, which...

President McKinley Inauguration

From what appears to be a furnace, a large, glowing block is lifted with the help of a crane over to a table by a group of men. A hammer comes from...

A train traveling through the Rockies is held up and boarded by two thugs. They rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway by...

The film is several vignettes of slap stick presentation of racial stereotypes. We are treated to murderous Mexicans, conniving Jews, brawling Irish,...

At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and...

A large size view of a pretty baby playing with half-dozen little puppies on the sand at the seashore. The action is very cunning and the...

A procession of American and European automobiles--including such makes as Daimlers, Mercedes, Stanley Steamers and Pierces-- drive up and down the...

Two small boys with policemen's hats and nightsticks are struggling with another small boy. The object of their struggle seems to be to arrest him....

A young man leers through a peephole in the wall separating two dressing rooms, but he is caught, and is humiliated by his victims, two pretty ladies.

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.

A little man appears out of the smoke.

Rows of women are shown at tables with winding machines. They wind using material from spools behind them, apparently putting the finished products...

Numerous women stand in rows at winding machines, taking material from large spools behind them. A male supervisor walks down the aisle, checking the...

Based loosely on the once-popular nursery rhyme. A fair is in progress, with refreshments, entertainment, and other activities. As the rest of the...

Early Biograph short on the results of marrying for financial gain.

The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are loggers performing the various...