Billy Bitzer Movies

An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job...

Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works

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

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

A two year old baby in a rage at being deprived of his favorite playthings.

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

A comic looking prison eats soup

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...

A woman and her guests frantically search for her missing child, who is eventually found playing with her dog in the kennel.

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

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...

A little man appears out of the smoke.

A city family goes to the shore for a vacation, but everything goes wrong.

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...

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

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

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

On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine,...

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.