Billy Bitzer Movies

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

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

The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially...

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

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.

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

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

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896,...

A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Carts carrying parts and pieces of machinery pass by...

Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too...

Hulda is a maiden fair to look upon. Her artless rustic simplicity, rivaling Hebe's gorgeous radiance, phlogisticates the susceptible hearts of the...

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

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...

Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he's gone, a burglar starts to break into his home. Mr. Jones arrives home just in...

A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they are only inside for a brief time, their daughter...

Based on a scene from Shakespeare's play: Macbeth, king of Scotland, is being challenged by forces led by Macduff. Young Siward comes to confront the...

The young authoress had come to the edge of the desert for her mother's sake. There she met the two young prospectors and a romance began. But the...

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...