Billy Bitzer Movies

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...

As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.

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 haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the...

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,...

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

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

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...

A large bucket is lowered into a pit by male workers using machinery. Molten material from a furnace is poured into the bucket using a slide. The...

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

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

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...

Georgetown, 1901. A silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a...

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

President McKinley Inauguration

A fictionalized account of the Hatfields and the McCoys.

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

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

A turbine is shown operating.

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