Billy Bitzer

Gottfried Wilhelm "Billy" Bitzer (April 21, 1872 – April 29, 1944) was a pioneering American cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith. In 2003, a survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild named him one of the ten most influential cinematographers in history. Bitzer, it is said, "developed camera techniques that set the standard for all future motion pictures." Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Bitzer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Cast

The Méliès Mystery

Self (archive footage)

Crew

The Birth of a Nation

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They Would Elope

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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

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Camera Operator, Director of Photography

Over the Hills to the Poor House

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Weighing the Baby

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When Knights Were Bold

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The Suicide Club

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Automobiling Among the Clouds

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Hooligan in Jail

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The Avenging Conscience

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When a Man Loves

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Across Brooklyn Bridge

The Camera Speaks

American Falls from Goat Island

American Falls from Luna Island

Children in the Surf at Coney Island

President McKinley Inauguration

Expert Bag Punching

Levi & Cohen, the Irish Comedians

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A Drunkard's Reformation

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The Coney Island Beach Patrol

Logging in Maine

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The New York Hat

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The Sands of Dee

The Mothering Heart

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The Miser's Heart

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The Burglar’s Dilemma

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The Lesser Evil

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The Chicken Thief

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In the Border States

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Swords and Hearts

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The Curtain Pole

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The Fall of Babylon

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The Mother and the Law

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A Cake Walk on the Beach at Coney Island

The Girl Who Stayed at Home

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What the Daisy Said

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Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle

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Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

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Testing a Rotary

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The Lady and the Mouse

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A Temporary Truce

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A Trap for Santa Claus

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The Broken Locket

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The Giddy Dancing Master

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The Little Darling

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The Dude and the Burglars

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A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

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To Save Her Soul

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The Zulu's Heart

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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

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The Mountaineer's Honor

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Bathing in the Ice at the L Street Bath, Boston

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The Taming of the Shrew

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1776, or The Hessian Renegades

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The School Teacher and the Waif

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The Hero of Liao-Yang

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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

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A Lodging for the Night

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True Heart Susie

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The Son's Return

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Those Awful Hats

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Orphans of the Storm

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A Trip to Salt Lake City

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Rose o' Salem Town

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A Romance of Happy Valley

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The Love Flower

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From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies

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Westinghouse Works

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Trial Marriages

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Girls Taking Time Checks

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Latina, Contortionist

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The Lonedale Operator

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The Impossible Convicts

Stealing a Dinner

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Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room

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The Adventures of Dollie

The Midnight Girl

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The Idol Dancer

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A Frontier Flirtation; or, How the Tenderfoot Won Out

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Robbed of Her All

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Fights of Nations

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The Sealed Room

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The Unchanging Sea

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His Trust Fulfilled

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The Fate of the Artist's Model

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New York Subway

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A Ballroom Tragedy

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Betsy Ross Dance

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McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio

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Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room

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Edgar Allan Poe

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The Greatest Question

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The Georgetown Loop (Colorado)

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The Making of a Man

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A Flash of Light

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Happy Hooligan Interferes

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The Primal Call

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Father Gets in the Game

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The Valet's Wife

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The Greatest Thing in Life

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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

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An Indian's Loyalty

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Camera Operator

The Rose of Kentucky

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Mr. Jones at the Ball

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A Rural Elopement

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The Criminal Hypnotist

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The Welcome Burglar

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The Maniac Cook

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The Christmas Burglars

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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

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Love Finds a Way

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The Fascinating Mrs. Francis

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The Honor of Thieves

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The Cord of Life

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The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals

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Through the Breakers

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What Shall We Do with Our Old?

Tapping a Furnace

Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works

Sweet and Twenty

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Coil Winding Section E

Teaching Dad to Like Her

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The Honor of His Family

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The Summer Boarders

The Painted Lady

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The Invisible Fluid

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Orphans in the Surf

The Girl and Her Trust

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The Music Master

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Home, Sweet Home

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San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake

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A Search for Evidence

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Assembling and Testing Turbines

Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works

Casting a Guide Box

Westinghouse Air Brake Co.

Girls Winding Armatures

Westinghouse Employees, Westinghouse Works

Welding the Big Ring

Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Moulding Scene)

Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene)

Assembling a Generator

Coil Winding Machines

Panorama Exterior Westinghouse Works

The Coming of Angelo

A Kentucky Feud

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Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge

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Judith of Bethulia

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Jamestown Exposition

Camera Operator

An Unseen Enemy

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The Lonely Villa

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The Battle of the Sexes

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One Is Business, the Other Crime

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The Musketeers of Pig Alley

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The Country Doctor

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The Mender of Nets

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A Corner in Wheat

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The Little Tease

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Two Men of the Desert

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Hearts of the World

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So Near, Yet So Far

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Married for Millions

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The Unwelcome Guest

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Enoch Arden: Part II

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The Redman's View

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Enoch Arden: Part I

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The Last Drop of Water

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Comata, the Sioux

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The House with Closed Shutters

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The Boy In The Barrel

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Lena and the Geese

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Chicks to Order

Lady Helen's Escapade

Sure-Fire Flint

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The Widow and the Only Man

N.Y. Fire Department Returning

A Pueblo Legend

2 A.M. in the Subway

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Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup

Wrestling at the New York Athletic Club

Pres. Roosevelt's Fourth of July Oration

Duel Scene from Macbeth

The Opening the Williamsburg Bridge

The Physical Culture Girl, No. 1

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The Physical Culture Girl, No. 2

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Willie's Camera

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Murder Scene from 'King of the Detectives'

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San Francisco Disaster

Director, Cinematography

Catch-As-Catch-Can Wrestling Bout

Cinematography, Director

Betrayed by a Handprint

The Sculptor's Nightmare

The Black Viper

A Calamitous Elopement

The Song of the Shirt

Romance of a Jewess

Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium

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After Many Years

The Call of the Wild

Where the Breakers Roar

Deceived Slumming Party

A Smoked Husband

Her First Adventure

The Planter's Wife

The Mended Lute

The Princess in the Vase

Her First Biscuits

The Cricket on the Hearth

The Voice of the Violin

The Gibson Goddess

The Light That Came

The Violin Maker of Cremona

The Politician's Love Story

The Renunciation

Nursing a Viper

The Root of Evil

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A String of Pearls

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The Voice of the Child

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The Trail of Books

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What's Your Hurry?

A Strange Meeting

The Salvation Army Lass

The Lure of the Gown

The Cardinal's Conspiracy

The Feud and the Turkey

The Peachbasket Hat

The Restoration

The Faded Lilies

The Girls and Daddy

The Indian Runner's Romance

In Old Kentucky

Professional Jealousy

A Famous Escape

Caught by Wireless

Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker

Mr. Jones’ Burglar

At the Top of Brooklyn Bridge

As It Is in Life

In Old California

An Arcadian Maid

Over Silent Paths

A Child of the Ghetto

The Baby and the Puppies

The Two Brothers

Her Terrible Ordeal

Love Among the Roses

The Oath and the Man

The Cloister’s Touch

A Child's Impulse

The Modern Prodigal

Muggsy's First Sweetheart

The Golden Supper

Winning Back His Love

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

That Chink at Golden Gulch

A Change of Heart

The Squaw's Love

The Adventures of Billy

Camera Operator