Billy Bitzer Movies

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

What is more miserable than love-blighted life? For the heart that truly loves can never forget. Such is the sad fate of the hero of this Biograph...

Numerous women stand at several rows of tables where they appear to be wrapping tape around some devices, presumably coils. Male supervisors walk...

Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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...

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

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

This scene of an African-American woman vigorously scrubbing a black baby was immensely popular with early audiences, and was featured on...

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...

Rows of women are shown at tables with winding machines. They wind using material from spools behind them, apparently putting the finished products...

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...

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

A remarkable exhibition by Gus Keller, novelty bag puncher of the New Polo Athletic Association. In seven scenes with dissolving effects. A. Single,...

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...

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

After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined the revolutionaries. Out of loyalty to his wife, the...

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

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...

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

A small child in the surf at the seashore. The child is evidently frightened at the rushing waves and stands terrified until a larger wave than usual...