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Billy Bitzer (1872-1944)

Alias:
G.W. Bitzer
Georg William 'Billy' Bitzer
Georg William Bitzer
Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer

Birthplace:
Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA

Born:
April 21, 1872

Died:
April 29, 1944

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Camera Operator:
1896  Little Egypt
1907  Jamestown Exposition
1913  Near To Earth

Cinematography:
1896  American Falls from Goat Island
1896  American Falls from Luna Island
1896  Hard Wash
1896  Little Egypt
1907  Jamestown Exposition
1908  Mixed Babies
1909  Lady Helen's Escapade
1911  The Unveiling
1911  What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1912  The Sands of Dee
1913  Near To Earth
1913  The Coming of Angelo
1914  Brute Force
????  Bobby's Kodak

Director:
1896  American Falls from Goat Island
1896  American Falls from Luna Island
1896  Hard Wash
1896  Little Egypt
1899  Across Brooklyn Bridge
1899  Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
1901  President McKinley Inauguration
1903  A Search for Evidence
1903  Chicks to Order
1903  Expert Bag Punching
1903  Happy Hooligan Interferes
1903  Levi & Cohen, the Irish Comedians
1903  Orphans in the Surf
1903  The Boy In The Barrel
1903  The Haymarket
1904  A Cake Walk on the Beach at Coney Island
1904  Assembling a Generator
1904  Assembling and Testing Turbines
1904  Automobiling Among the Clouds
1904  Baby in a Rage
1904  Casting a Guide Box
1904  Children in the Surf at Coney Island
1904  Coil Winding Machines
1904  Coil Winding Section E
1904  Girls Taking Time Checks
1904  Girls Winding Armatures
1904  Panorama Exterior Westinghouse Works
1904  Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room
1904  Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle
1904  Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works
1904  Steam Hammer
1904  Steam Whistle
1904  Taping Coils
1904  Tapping a Furnace
1904  Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works
1904  Testing a Rotary
1904  The Coney Island Beach Patrol
1904  Welding the Big Ring
1904  Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
1904  Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene)
1904  Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Moulding Scene)
1904  Westinghouse Employees, Westinghouse Works
1904  Westinghouse Works
1905  A Pipe Dream
1905  New York Subway
1905  Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room
1905  The Summer Boarders
1905  Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1906  Logging in Maine
1906  The Impossible Convicts
1907  Jamestown Exposition
1908  Mixed Babies
1908  The Adventures of Dollie
1909  Lady Helen's Escapade
1911  The Unveiling
1911  What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1912  The Sands of Dee
1913  Near To Earth
1913  The Coming of Angelo
1914  Brute Force
????  Bobby's Kodak

Director of Photography:
1896  American Falls from Goat Island
1896  American Falls from Luna Island
1896  Hard Wash
1896  Little Egypt
1896  McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
1899  Across Brooklyn Bridge
1899  Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
1899  Stealing a Dinner
1901  President McKinley Inauguration
1903  A Frontier Flirtation; or, How the Tenderfoot Won Out
1903  A Search for Evidence
1903  Betsy Ross Dance
1903  Chicks to Order
1903  Expert Bag Punching
1903  Happy Hooligan Interferes
1903  Hooligan in Jail
1903  Levi & Cohen, the Irish Comedians
1903  Orphans in the Surf
1903  The Boy In The Barrel
1903  The Dude and the Burglars
1903  The Fate of the Artist's Model
1903  The Georgetown Loop (Colorado)
1903  The Giddy Dancing Master
1903  The Haymarket
1903  Weighing the Baby
1904  A Cake Walk on the Beach at Coney Island
1904  Alone
1904  Assembling a Generator
1904  Assembling and Testing Turbines
1904  Automobiling Among the Clouds
1904  Baby in a Rage
1904  Casting a Guide Box
1904  Children in the Surf at Coney Island
1904  Coil Winding Machines
1904  Coil Winding Section E
1904  Girls Taking Time Checks
1904  Girls Winding Armatures
1904  Panorama Exterior Westinghouse Works
1904  Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room
1904  Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle
1904  Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works
1904  Personal
1904  Steam Hammer
1904  Steam Whistle
1904  Taping Coils
1904  Tapping a Furnace
1904  Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works
1904  Testing a Rotary
1904  The Chicken Thief
1904  The Coney Island Beach Patrol
1904  The Hero of Liao-Yang
1904  Welding the Big Ring
1904  Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
1904  Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene)
1904  Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Moulding Scene)
1904  Westinghouse Employees, Westinghouse Works
1904  Westinghouse Works
1905  2 A.M. in the Subway
1905  A Ballroom Tragedy
1905  A Kentucky Feud
1905  A Pipe Dream
1905  A Trip to Salt Lake City
1905  Latina, Contortionist
1905  Midwinter Bathing, L Street Bath, Boston
1905  New York Subway
1905  Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room
1905  She Banked in Her Stocking; or, Robbed of Her All
1905  The Summer Boarders
1905  Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1906  From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies
1906  Logging in Maine
1906  Married for Millions
1906  San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake
1906  The Impossible Convicts
1907  Fights of Nations
1907  Jamestown Exposition
1907  Mr. Hurry-up
1907  Trial Marriages
1908  Father Gets in the Game
1908  Hulda's Lovers
1908  Mixed Babies
1908  Money Mad
1908  Mr. Jones at the Ball
1908  Over the Hills to the Poor House
1908  The Adventures of Dollie
1908  The Christmas Burglars
1908  The Invisible Fluid
1908  The Music Master
1908  The Taming of the Shrew
1908  The Valet's Wife
1908  The Zulu's Heart
1908  When Knights Were Bold
1909  1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1909  A Corner in Wheat
1909  A Drunkard's Reformation
1909  A Rural Elopement
1909  A Trap for Santa Claus
1909  At the Altar
1909  Comata, the Sioux
1909  Edgar Allan Poe
1909  Getting Even
1909  Lady Helen's Escapade
1909  Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1909  Love Finds a Way
1909  Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
1909  Sweet and Twenty
1909  The Broken Locket
1909  The Cord of Life
1909  The Country Doctor
1909  The Criminal Hypnotist
1909  The Curtain Pole
1909  The Day After
1909  The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
1909  The Honor of Thieves
1909  The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
1909  The Little Darling
1909  The Lonely Villa
1909  The Maniac Cook
1909  The Mountaineer's Honor
1909  The Necklace
1909  The Redman's View
1909  The Sacrifice
1909  The Sealed Room
1909  The Son's Return
1909  The Suicide Club
1909  The Way of Man
1909  The Welcome Burglar
1909  They Would Elope
1909  Those Awful Hats
1909  Through the Breakers
1909  To Save Her Soul
1909  Two Memories
1909  What Drink Did
1910  A Flash of Light
1910  In the Border States
1910  Ramona
1910  Rose o' Salem Town
1910  Sunshine Sue
1910  The Fugitive
1910  The Honor of His Family
1910  The House with Closed Shutters
1910  The Iconoclast
1910  The Lesson
1910  The Unchanging Sea
1910  The Usurer
1910  Waiter No. 5
1910  What the Daisy Said
1910  Wilful Peggy
1911  Enoch Arden
1911  Enoch Arden: Part I
1911  Enoch Arden: Part II
1911  Fisher Folks
1911  His Trust
1911  His Trust Fulfilled
1911  Italian Blood
1911  Swords and Hearts
1911  Teaching Dad to Like Her
1911  The Battle
1911  The Last Drop of Water
1911  The Lonedale Operator
1911  The Long Road
1911  The Making of a Man
1911  The Miser's Heart
1911  The Primal Call
1911  The Rose of Kentucky
1911  The Unveiling
1911  What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1911  When a Man Loves
1912  A Beast at Bay
1912  A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912  A Lodging for the Night
1912  A Temporary Truce
1912  An Unseen Enemy
1912  Friends
1912  Iola's Promise
1912  Lena and the Geese
1912  My Baby
1912  One Is Business, the Other Crime
1912  So Near, Yet So Far
1912  The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912  The Girl and Her Trust
1912  The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912  The Lesser Evil
1912  The Massacre
1912  The Mender of Nets
1912  The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912  The New York Hat
1912  The Painted Lady
1912  The Sands of Dee
1912  The School Teacher and the Waif
1912  The Sunbeam
1913  An Indian's Loyalty
1913  Broken Ways
1913  Near To Earth
1913  Olaf—An Atom
1913  The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
1913  The Coming of Angelo
1913  The Lady and the Mouse
1913  The Little Tease
1913  The Mothering Heart
1913  The Unwelcome Guest
1913  The Wanderer
1913  Two Men of the Desert
1914  Brute Force
1914  Home, Sweet Home
1914  Judith of Bethulia
1914  The Avenging Conscience
1914  The Escape
1915  The Birth of a Nation
1916  Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1918  Hearts of the World
1918  The Great Love
1918  The Greatest Thing in Life
1919  A Romance of Happy Valley
1919  Broken Blossoms
1919  Scarlet Days
1919  The Fall of Babylon
1919  The Girl Who Stayed at Home
1919  The Greatest Question
1919  The Mother and the Law
1919  True Heart Susie
1920  The Idol Dancer
1920  The Love Flower
1920  Way Down East
1921  Orphans of the Storm
1922  Sure-Fire Flint
1923  The White Rose
1924  America
1925  The Midnight Girl
1928  The Battle of the Sexes
1933  Hotel Variety
????  Bobby's Kodak

Story:
1896  American Falls from Goat Island
1896  American Falls from Luna Island
1896  Hard Wash
1896  Little Egypt
1896  McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
1899  Across Brooklyn Bridge
1899  Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
1899  Stealing a Dinner
1901  President McKinley Inauguration
1903  A Frontier Flirtation; or, How the Tenderfoot Won Out
1903  A Search for Evidence
1903  Betsy Ross Dance
1903  Chicks to Order
1903  Expert Bag Punching
1903  Happy Hooligan Interferes
1903  Hooligan in Jail
1903  Levi & Cohen, the Irish Comedians
1903  Orphans in the Surf
1903  The Boy In The Barrel
1903  The Dude and the Burglars
1903  The Fate of the Artist's Model
1903  The Georgetown Loop (Colorado)
1903  The Giddy Dancing Master
1903  The Haymarket
1903  Weighing the Baby
1904  A Cake Walk on the Beach at Coney Island
1904  Alone
1904  Assembling a Generator
1904  Assembling and Testing Turbines
1904  Automobiling Among the Clouds
1904  Baby in a Rage
1904  Casting a Guide Box
1904  Children in the Surf at Coney Island
1904  Coil Winding Machines
1904  Coil Winding Section E
1904  Girls Taking Time Checks
1904  Girls Winding Armatures
1904  Panorama Exterior Westinghouse Works
1904  Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room
1904  Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle
1904  Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works
1904  Personal
1904  Steam Hammer
1904  Steam Whistle
1904  Taping Coils
1904  Tapping a Furnace
1904  Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works
1904  Testing a Rotary
1904  The Chicken Thief
1904  The Coney Island Beach Patrol
1904  The Hero of Liao-Yang
1904  Welding the Big Ring
1904  Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
1904  Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene)
1904  Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Moulding Scene)
1904  Westinghouse Employees, Westinghouse Works
1904  Westinghouse Works
1905  2 A.M. in the Subway
1905  A Ballroom Tragedy
1905  A Kentucky Feud
1905  A Pipe Dream
1905  A Trip to Salt Lake City
1905  Latina, Contortionist
1905  Midwinter Bathing, L Street Bath, Boston
1905  New York Subway
1905  Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room
1905  She Banked in Her Stocking; or, Robbed of Her All
1905  The Summer Boarders
1905  Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1906  From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies
1906  Logging in Maine
1906  Married for Millions
1906  San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake
1906  The Impossible Convicts
1907  Fights of Nations
1907  Jamestown Exposition
1907  Mr. Hurry-up
1907  Trial Marriages
1908  Father Gets in the Game
1908  Hulda's Lovers
1908  Mixed Babies
1908  Money Mad
1908  Mr. Jones at the Ball
1908  Over the Hills to the Poor House
1908  The Adventures of Dollie
1908  The Christmas Burglars
1908  The Invisible Fluid
1908  The Music Master
1908  The Taming of the Shrew
1908  The Valet's Wife
1908  The Zulu's Heart
1908  When Knights Were Bold
1909  1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1909  A Corner in Wheat
1909  A Drunkard's Reformation
1909  A Rural Elopement
1909  A Trap for Santa Claus
1909  At the Altar
1909  Comata, the Sioux
1909  Edgar Allan Poe
1909  Getting Even
1909  Lady Helen's Escapade
1909  Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1909  Love Finds a Way
1909  Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
1909  Sweet and Twenty
1909  The Broken Locket
1909  The Cord of Life
1909  The Country Doctor
1909  The Criminal Hypnotist
1909  The Curtain Pole
1909  The Day After
1909  The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
1909  The Honor of Thieves
1909  The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
1909  The Little Darling
1909  The Lonely Villa
1909  The Maniac Cook
1909  The Mountaineer's Honor
1909  The Necklace
1909  The Redman's View
1909  The Sacrifice
1909  The Sealed Room
1909  The Son's Return
1909  The Suicide Club
1909  The Way of Man
1909  The Welcome Burglar
1909  They Would Elope
1909  Those Awful Hats
1909  Through the Breakers
1909  To Save Her Soul
1909  Two Memories
1909  What Drink Did
1910  A Flash of Light
1910  In the Border States
1910  Ramona
1910  Rose o' Salem Town
1910  Sunshine Sue
1910  The Fugitive
1910  The Honor of His Family
1910  The House with Closed Shutters
1910  The Iconoclast
1910  The Lesson
1910  The Unchanging Sea
1910  The Usurer
1910  Waiter No. 5
1910  What the Daisy Said
1910  Wilful Peggy
1911  Enoch Arden
1911  Enoch Arden: Part I
1911  Enoch Arden: Part II
1911  Fisher Folks
1911  His Trust
1911  His Trust Fulfilled
1911  Italian Blood
1911  Swords and Hearts
1911  Teaching Dad to Like Her
1911  The Battle
1911  The Last Drop of Water
1911  The Lonedale Operator
1911  The Long Road
1911  The Making of a Man
1911  The Miser's Heart
1911  The Primal Call
1911  The Rose of Kentucky
1911  The Unveiling
1911  What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1911  When a Man Loves
1912  A Beast at Bay
1912  A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912  A Lodging for the Night
1912  A Temporary Truce
1912  An Unseen Enemy
1912  Friends
1912  Iola's Promise
1912  Lena and the Geese
1912  My Baby
1912  One Is Business, the Other Crime
1912  So Near, Yet So Far
1912  The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912  The Girl and Her Trust
1912  The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912  The Lesser Evil
1912  The Massacre
1912  The Mender of Nets
1912  The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912  The New York Hat
1912  The Painted Lady
1912  The Sands of Dee
1912  The School Teacher and the Waif
1912  The Sunbeam
1913  An Indian's Loyalty
1913  Broken Ways
1913  Near To Earth
1913  Olaf—An Atom
1913  The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
1913  The Coming of Angelo
1913  The Lady and the Mouse
1913  The Little Tease
1913  The Mothering Heart
1913  The Unwelcome Guest
1913  The Wanderer
1913  Two Men of the Desert
1914  Brute Force
1914  Home, Sweet Home
1914  Judith of Bethulia
1914  The Avenging Conscience
1914  The Escape
1915  The Birth of a Nation
1916  Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1918  Hearts of the World
1918  The Great Love
1918  The Greatest Thing in Life
1919  A Romance of Happy Valley
1919  Broken Blossoms
1919  Scarlet Days
1919  The Fall of Babylon
1919  The Girl Who Stayed at Home
1919  The Greatest Question
1919  The Mother and the Law
1919  True Heart Susie
1920  The Idol Dancer
1920  The Love Flower
1920  Way Down East
1921  Orphans of the Storm
1922  Sure-Fire Flint
1923  The White Rose
1924  America
1925  The Midnight Girl
1928  The Battle of the Sexes
1933  Hotel Variety
1934  The Camera Speaks
????  Bobby's Kodak

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