Billy Bitzer Movies

In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.

Alice misunderstands when she sees her sweetheart Frank accidentally kissing her sister, and gets upset. Frank claims he'll kill himself by throwing...

A procession of American and European automobiles--including such makes as Daimlers, Mercedes, Stanley Steamers and Pierces-- drive up and down the...

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,...

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

A New York City boarding house for vaudeville performers, none of whom have any steady work....

A little man appears out of the smoke.

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

Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where...

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,...

A city family goes to the shore for a vacation, but everything goes wrong.

Only women are at a resort, until one man arrives. He woos a pretty young widow, and wins her.

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

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...

A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's ignored by a pretty lady. We see the book enacted:...

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...

Shot at an unidentified location in New York City, the film shows several pieces of horse-drawn fire vehicles in motion: two hook-and-ladders; two...

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

The Fate of the Artist's Model (1903) shows a young woman and her baby who are abandoned by her artist lover.

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