Billy Bitzer Filmes

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.

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...

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

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...

Numerous women stand in rows at winding machines, taking material from large spools behind them. A male supervisor walks down the aisle, checking the...

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...

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

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...

Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1897.

People doing the Cake Walk dance on the Beach at Coney Island.

A view of the opening ceromonies for New York's Williamsburg Bridge.

Employees leaving Westinghouse Works .

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...

This is a very humorous and a very natural scene. Two mischievous small boys rig up a fake camera with a piece of stove pipe and a box, and persuade...

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