Billy Bitzer Movies

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...

A fictionalized account of the Hatfields and the McCoys.

Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to...

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

A woman wearing a light-colored leotard, gathered at the waist, and tights stands against a black background. Although she is filmed in a long shot,...

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

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

A small boy is smoking his first cigarette in the door-yard of a cottage. Fearing detection, he jumps into a barrel. His parents see the smoke rising...

Rows of women are shown at tables with winding machines. They wind using material from spools behind them, apparently putting the finished products...

Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works

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

People doing the Cake Walk dance on the Beach at Coney Island.

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

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

Employees leaving Westinghouse Works .

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...

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...

A man attempts a series of 'trial marriages' with various women, and eventually gives up on marriage altogether.

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...