Billy Bitzer Movies

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

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

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

“The Biograph people tell an excellent story in this, and tell it so strongly that it grips very close. The scene where the husband gets into...

Numerous women sit in rows at machines where they appear to be winding some type of wire and tooling it onto machines. Two young men push spools of...

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

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

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

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

A fictionalized account of the Hatfields and the McCoys.

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

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...