Billy Bitzer Movies

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

Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup

Numerous women stand at several rows of tables where they appear to be wrapping tape around some devices, presumably coils. Male supervisors walk...

A large size view of a pretty baby playing with half-dozen little puppies on the sand at the seashore. The action is very cunning and the...

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

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

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...

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

The cameraman photographed over the right shoulder of a young woman reclining on a couch while rebuffing the advances of a young man intent on...

The murder scene from the Broadway play 'King of the Detectives'.

The film was made up of photographs of interior sets combined with exteriors to establish the beginning and the end of the film. The first scene is...

Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope peep-show machines) and lasted about 2 minutes, this...

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

A group of men work on various parts of a large generator, assembling the pieces

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...

This is a very humorous and a very natural scene. Two mischievous small boys rig up a fake camera with a piece of stove pipe and a box, and persuade...

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...

It is obvious that the cameraman placed his equipment close to the edge of a seashore. A large number of children followed by bathers can be seen...

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...

“Another exhibition by Prof. Leonidas' troop of cats and dogs. One of the dogs is shown stealing his dinner from the table in his master's...