Billy Bitzer Movies

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...

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over...

This picture is very novel and interesting. It gives the complete trip from the station at the New York City end of the bridge to the station at the...

Looking for evidence that her husband may have been unfaithful, a woman is in a hotel, accompanied by a witness, and they are peeking through the...

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

“The Biograph people tell an excellent story in this, and tell it so strongly that it grips very close. The scene where the husband gets into...

"Children in the Surf, Coney Island" is a very short documentary with Billy Bitzer behind the camera.

A peasant family comprising the father, mother and little boy child are happy in their own sphere until one day several courtiers of a hunting party...

A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits.

A printer, drinking excessively and neglectful of his family obligations, is fired from his job when he offends his wealthy employer and his...

It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him with a cap, personalized with his initals in the...

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...

Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one...

Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1897.

Sure-Fire Flint, an energetic chap just returned from wartime military service, meets June De Lanni, the girl of his dreams, while working as a...

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...

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...

A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.

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...

Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a...