Billy Bitzer Movies

A small group of men turn on what appears to be a generator. As the rotary spins, the men make adjustments to the machine and check its operations.

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. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens,...

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying...

Showing two typical concert hall knock-about teams in a very poor performance. It ends up in their being egged by the audience.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Based loosely on the once-popular nursery rhyme. A fair is in progress, with refreshments, entertainment, and other activities. As the rest of the...

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

Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where...

“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...

Alice misunderstands when she sees her sweetheart Frank accidentally kissing her sister, and gets upset. Frank claims he'll kill himself by throwing...

A comic looking prison eats soup

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

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

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...