Billy Bitzer Movies

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....

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

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

A New York City boarding house for vaudeville performers, none of whom have any steady work....

Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one...

Harry's rich old bachelor uncle thinks Harry is still single. When Uncle announces a visit, Harry's wife has to play the part of the housekeeper so...

A woman sneaks up behind a seated couple, stabs the woman in the back, and makes an escape.

A printer, drinking excessively and neglectful of his family obligations, is fired from his job when he offends his wealthy employer and his...

The boy, who is the idol of his widowed mother, returns from college with a collegiate record she is justly proud of. To mark the occasion his...

A young man is hired as a guard for an insane asylum. Immediately the inmates start harassing him and he flees. The inmates give chase and they...

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

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

This short film, done by The American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, shows the historical legend of the three men - two drums and a fife player -...

An organ-grinder is playing beneath the window of a cranky old woman. She objects strenuously. The organ-grinder, egged on by Hooligan, keeps on...

“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...

A turbine is shown operating.

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

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

This is in every respect a stunning picture, though somewhat bohemian in subject. It depicts in six scenes, six lively hours at New York City's...

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.