Billy Bitzer Movies

A man who has placed a personal advertisement for a prospective wife goes to wait at the meeting place that he designated. Soon a woman comes in...

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

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...

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

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...

Looking for evidence that her husband may have been unfaithful, a woman is in a hotel, accompanied by a witness, and they are peeking through the...

The best and most characteristic picture of the President ever made. The camera is close by so that every feature shows out sharp and distinct. The...

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...

Kathryn Osterman breaks egg into a plate. As the content reaches the plate, it transforms into a baby chick. Action repeats twelve times through...

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

A comic looking prison eats soup

The second film in the series shows the same girl in a brisk calisthenic exercise.

President McKinley Inauguration

The murder scene from the novel 'King of the Detectives'.

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

What appear to be molds pass some men by on conveyor belts. The men take them off the belt and dump the contents onto the ground. Other men pick up...

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

This is in every respect a stunning picture, though somewhat bohemian in subject. It depicts in six scenes, six lively hours at New York City's...

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

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