Billy Bitzer Movies

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...

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

A closeup of the steam whistle blowing at the "Westinghouse works" complex of factories in Pennsylvania, probably at the Westinghouse Electric &...

President McKinley Inauguration

This picture is very novel and interesting. It gives the complete trip from the station at the New York City end of the bridge to the station at the...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup

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

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

A young man is hired as a guard for an insane asylum. Immediately the inmates start harassing him and he flees. The inmates give chase and they...

Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1897.

Diving in the Swimming Pool at Palm Beach, Florida.

The dancing master is a dapper little fellow who has been engaged to instruct two pretty girls in some of the niceties of stage dancing. He becomes a...