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...

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

A Western cowboy attempts to flirt with a veiled young lady sitting on a bench in the garden...

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.

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...

Early Biograph short on the results of marrying for financial gain.

This film was photographed in the winter, much of it during an actual snowstorm, and snow can be seen on the ground in all scenes. The subject is a...

Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup

Only women are at a resort, until one man arrives. He woos a pretty young widow, and wins her.

Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, in April and June, 1907, participating in Jamestown's tercentennial...

A pretty domestic scene showing the proud father, with the assistance of the nurse and doctor, tying the little one in a towel and weighing it with a...

Two black men are stealing chickens and get chased by the white farmers.

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

Kathryn Osterman breaks egg into a plate. As the content reaches the plate, it transforms into a baby chick. Action repeats twelve times through...

A boy takes pictures of everything, including some embarrassing situations. When he projects the pictures on a wall for everyone to see, his father...

The formal name of the peep show machine was the Mutoscope -- at least when it was manufactured by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company,...