Billy Bitzer Movies

Mack Sennett appears as a charity worker in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic...

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco...

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...

Upset that her parents are getting ready to separate a little girl grabs a handful of books and heads off to school without anyone’s knowledge....

Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to...

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

The young son of a wealthy Mexican house returns home from school. He is the only son of a widowed mother, whose heart beats only for him. He becomes...

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

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....

Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope peep-show machines) and lasted about 2 minutes, this...

A woman wearing a light-colored leotard, gathered at the waist, and tights stands against a black background. Although she is filmed in a long shot,...

A turbine is shown operating.

A gorilla escapes from its master on a ship, breaks into a young woman's home, and kills her. The woman's fiancé, Jim, who had visited...

Mr. Hurry-Up gets dressed in a rush, and then races down to breakfast. After a few quick bites and a couple gulps of coffee, he races out the door...

A group of men work on various parts of a large generator, assembling the pieces

A young man is hired as a guard for an insane asylum. Immediately the inmates start harassing him and he flees. The inmates give chase and they...

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...

On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine,...

Two young ladies, members of a dramatic stock company, are rivals for stellar honors. One seems to have had things her own way for a time, having...