Billy Bitzer Movies

Taken at St. John's Home, Coney Island. A large number of boys are bathing in the surf. At a signal the boys leave the water and walk toward the...

Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping...

Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail...

Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".

Mr. Hurry-Up gets dressed in a rush, and then races down to breakfast. After a few quick bites and a couple gulps of coffee, he races out the door...

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

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

Crime drama involving an Irish couple immigrating to America

Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too...

A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is...

Brothers George and Robert enlist on opposite sides in the Civil War. Robert is captured as a spy for the South, but escapes and hides in his...

A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Carts carrying parts and pieces of machinery pass by...

After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired....

A closeup of the steam whistle blowing at the "Westinghouse works" complex of factories in Pennsylvania, probably at the Westinghouse Electric &...

A man murders his wife's lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective is in pursuit, joined by a young man who eventually...

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

"Children in the Surf, Coney Island" is a very short documentary with Billy Bitzer behind the camera.

A husband suspects his wife of an affair. The wife's cousin borrows a shawl to meet her lover in the garden. The husband spies the couple embracing,...

The view from a moving train shows some of the Westinghouse interests and the surrounding areas.

Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works