Billy Bitzer Movies

Shot at an unidentified location in New York City, the film shows several pieces of horse-drawn fire vehicles in motion: two hook-and-ladders; two...

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...

A train traveling through the Rockies is held up and boarded by two thugs. They rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway by...

Several chairs rest against a blank wall; three men, then a fourth and soon seven in all, divide into various pairs and wrestle for the camera.

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...

A large group of men are shown performing various tasks in one room at the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. On one side, men are shown pouring a hot liquid...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Two burglars have just entered an elegant-looking home, but before they can proceed, the woman of the house enters the room. One of the burglars...

A turbine is shown operating.

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.

A group of men weld one area of a large ring in a fire. They lift the ring, which is hanging horizontally on chains, out of the fire. Four men hammer...

A fictionalized account of the Hatfields and the McCoys.

Two small boys with policemen's hats and nightsticks are struggling with another small boy. The object of their struggle seems to be to arrest him....

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

Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works

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