Billy Bitzer Movies

A man attempts a series of 'trial marriages' with various women, and eventually gives up on marriage altogether.

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

Filmed from the Brooklyn tower of the bridge, this is a panorama starting at Manhattan's Battery and then panning northward along the East River...

Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup

First film in the series, showing a pretty girl exercising with chest weights.

The second film in the series shows the same girl in a brisk calisthenic exercise.

A two year old baby in a rage at being deprived of his favorite playthings.

People doing the Cake Walk dance on the Beach at Coney Island.

This is a very humorous and a very natural scene. Two mischievous small boys rig up a fake camera with a piece of stove pipe and a box, and persuade...

Based on a scene from Shakespeare's play: Macbeth, king of Scotland, is being challenged by forces led by Macduff. Young Siward comes to confront the...

The murder scene from the novel 'King of the Detectives'.

This film was photographed in the winter, much of it during an actual snowstorm, and snow can be seen on the ground in all scenes. The subject is a...

A view of the opening ceromonies for New York's Williamsburg Bridge.

Men working in teams carry buckets of molten material and pour the material into what appear to be molds lined up on the ground.

Shot at an unidentified location in New York City, the film shows several pieces of horse-drawn fire vehicles in motion: two hook-and-ladders; two...

Presumably the woman is Betsy Ross, and she's quite a pretty woman with tumbling dark hair and coltish legs. She dances energetically, but it all...

A Western cowboy attempts to flirt with a veiled young lady sitting on a bench in the garden...

In ancient Egypt, a princess is executed after being caught in an affair with a Theban warrior, with her soul sealed inside a vase. Centuries later,...

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

The cameraman photographed over the right shoulder of a young woman reclining on a couch while rebuffing the advances of a young man intent on...