Billy Bitzer
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Billy Bitzer

Born 21 April 1872 · Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA · Died 29 April 1944

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.

Known for

The Birth of a Nation
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Way Down East
A Corner in Wheat
Orphans of the Storm
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Lonely Villa
Those Awful Hats
True Heart Susie
The Lonedale Operator
The Girl and Her Trust
The Camera Speaks
Hotel Variety
The Battle of the Sexes
The Midnight Girl
America
The White Rose
Sure-Fire Flint
Orphans of the Storm
The Love Flower
The Idol Dancer
Way Down East
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
The Fall of Babylon
The Mother and the Law
The Girl Who Stayed at Home
True Heart Susie
A Romance of Happy Valley
The Greatest Question
Scarlet Days
The Greatest Thing in Life
The Great Love
Hearts of the World
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Birth of a Nation
The Avenging Conscience
The Escape
Home, Sweet Home
Judith of Bethulia
Near To Earth
The Mothering Heart
The Lady and the Mouse
Olaf—An Atom
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
An Indian's Loyalty
The Little Tease
Two Men of the Desert
Broken Ways
The Wanderer
The Unwelcome Guest
Friends
The New York Hat
The Burglar’s Dilemma
The Lesser Evil
The Massacre
A Temporary Truce
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
The School Teacher and the Waif
A Lodging for the Night
The Painted Lady
The Girl and Her Trust
Iola's Promise
An Unseen Enemy
One Is Business, the Other Crime
The Sunbeam
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Mender of Nets
So Near, Yet So Far
Lena and the Geese
A Beast at Bay
My Baby
The Root of Evil
A String of Pearls
When a Man Loves
The Miser's Heart
His Trust
Swords and Hearts
The Battle
Fisher Folks
The Long Road
The Lonedale Operator
His Trust Fulfilled
The Making of a Man
The Primal Call
The Rose of Kentucky
Enoch Arden: Part II
Enoch Arden: Part I
Enoch Arden
The Last Drop of Water
The Voice of the Child
The Trail of Books
The Usurer
In the Border States
The Fugitive
What the Daisy Said
Waiter No. 5
Sunshine Sue
Rose o' Salem Town
The Unchanging Sea
A Flash of Light
Ramona
The House with Closed Shutters
Wilful Peggy
Lucky Jim
They Would Elope
The Suicide Club
What Drink Did
A Drunkard's Reformation
The Curtain Pole
A Trap for Santa Claus
Getting Even
The Broken Locket
The Way of Man
The Little Darling
The Day After
To Save Her Soul
The Mountaineer's Honor
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
The Son's Return
Those Awful Hats
At the Altar
The Sealed Room
Edgar Allen Poe
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
The Cord of Life
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
The Necklace
Through the Breakers
Sweet and Twenty
Two Memories
The Lonely Villa
The Country Doctor
A Corner in Wheat
The Redman's View
Comata, the Sioux
Over the Hills to the Poor House
When Knights Were Bold
The Zulu's Heart
The Taming of the Shrew
The Adventures of Dollie
Father Gets in the Game
Mr. Jones at the Ball
The Invisible Fluid
The Music Master
Money Mad
Betrayed by a Handprint
Trial Marriages
Mr. Hurry-up
From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies
Married for Millions
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room
New York Subway
Automobiling Among the Clouds
Children in the Surf at Coney Island
The Chicken Thief
A Cake Walk on the Beach at Coney Island
Testing a Rotary
The Hero of Liao-Yang
Westinghouse Employees, Westinghouse Works
Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene)
Coil Winding Machines
Personal
Expert Bag Punching
The Dude and the Burglars
The Fate of the Artist's Model
Happy Hooligan Interferes
The Haymarket
Pres. Roosevelt's Fourth of July Oration
President McKinley Inauguration
The Georgetown Loop (Colorado)
Across Brooklyn Bridge
Stealing a Dinner
Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
At the Top of Brooklyn Bridge
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