Billy Bitzer Movies

  • 1905
    Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

    Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

    Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

    3.81905HD

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

    Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
  • 1905
    Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room

    Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room

    Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room

    4.31905HD

    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.

    Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room
  • 1905
    Teasing

    Teasing

    Teasing

    41905HD

    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...

    Teasing
  • 1904
    Assembling a Generator

    Assembling a Generator

    Assembling a Generator

    51904HD

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

    Assembling a Generator
  • 1899
    Across Brooklyn Bridge

    Across Brooklyn Bridge

    Across Brooklyn Bridge

    4.31899HD

    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...

    Across Brooklyn Bridge
  • 1904
    The Chicken Thief

    The Chicken Thief

    The Chicken Thief

    01904HD

    Two black men are stealing chickens and get chased by the white farmers.

    The Chicken Thief
  • 1906
    Logging in Maine

    Logging in Maine

    Logging in Maine

    6.41906HD

    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...

    Logging in Maine
  • 1904
    Westinghouse Works

    Westinghouse Works

    Westinghouse Works

    5.51904HD

    Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904. Audiences of the day would have been...

    Westinghouse Works
  • 1911
    The Unveiling

    The Unveiling

    The Unveiling

    01911HD

    The boy, who is the idol of his widowed mother, returns from college with a collegiate record she is justly proud of. To mark the occasion his...

    The Unveiling
  • 1904
    Coil Winding Machines

    Coil Winding Machines

    Coil Winding Machines

    4.71904HD

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

    Coil Winding Machines
  • 1907
    Fights of Nations

    Fights of Nations

    Fights of Nations

    41907HD

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

    Fights of Nations
  • 1903
    The Boy In The Barrel

    The Boy In The Barrel

    The Boy In The Barrel

    41903HD

    A small boy is smoking his first cigarette in the door-yard of a cottage. Fearing detection, he jumps into a barrel. His parents see the smoke rising...

    The Boy In The Barrel
  • 1904
    The Lost Child

    The Lost Child

    The Lost Child

    41904HD

    A woman and her guests frantically search for her missing child, who is eventually found playing with her dog in the kennel.

    The Lost Child
  • 1904
    Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle

    Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle

    Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle

    51904HD

    A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying...

    Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle
  • 1904
    Assembling and Testing Turbines

    Assembling and Testing Turbines

    Assembling and Testing Turbines

    4.21904HD

    A turbine is shown operating.

    Assembling and Testing Turbines
  • 1904
    The Opening the Williamsburg Bridge

    The Opening the Williamsburg Bridge

    The Opening the Williamsburg Bridge

    4.41904HD

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

    The Opening the Williamsburg Bridge
  • 1904
    Welding the Big Ring

    Welding the Big Ring

    Welding the Big Ring

    5.11904HD

    A group of men weld one area of a large ring in a fire. They lift the ring, which is hanging horizontally on chains, out of the fire. Four men hammer...

    Welding the Big Ring
  • 1903
    Weighing the Baby

    Weighing the Baby

    Weighing the Baby

    01903HD

    A pretty domestic scene showing the proud father, with the assistance of the nurse and doctor, tying the little one in a towel and weighing it with a...

    Weighing the Baby
  • 1907
    Jamestown Exposition

    Jamestown Exposition

    Jamestown Exposition

    01907HD

    Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, in April and June, 1907, participating in Jamestown's tercentennial...

    Jamestown Exposition
  • 1904
    The Hero of Liao-Yang

    The Hero of Liao-Yang

    The Hero of Liao-Yang

    4.71904HD

    Several Japanese youths are playing various games and enjoying some refreshments outdoors when a military courier arrives. The messenger asks for one...

    The Hero of Liao-Yang