Billy Bitzer
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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
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
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A Beast at Bay (1912)
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Home, Sweet Home (1914)
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The Battle (1911)
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At the Altar (1909)
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An Unseen Enemy (1912)
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Way Down East (1920)
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
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His Trust (1911)
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The Mother and the Law (1919)
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The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)
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The Usurer (1910)
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Lena and the Geese (1912)
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The Greatest Thing in Life (1918)
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From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies (1906)
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America (1924)
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades (1909)
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The Avenging Conscience (1914)
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A Corner in Wheat (1909)
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The Unchanging Sea (1910)
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Orphans of the Storm (1921)
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Hearts of the World (1918)
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Judith of Bethulia (1914)
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The Taming of the Shrew (1908)
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The Battle of the Sexes (1928)
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Enoch Arden (1911)
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In the Border States (1910)
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My Baby (1912)
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One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
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To Save Her Soul (1909)
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The Great Love (1918)
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The Unwelcome Guest (1913)
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
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The Massacre (1912)
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Those Awful Hats (1909)
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The Son's Return (1909)
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So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
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The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)
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Rose o' Salem Town (1910)
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Edgar Allan Poe (1909)
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The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)
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The Painted Lady (1912)
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An Indian's Loyalty (1913)
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The Making of a Man (1911)
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The Lonely Villa (1909)
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Two Men of the Desert (1913)
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The New York Hat (1912)
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A Lodging for the Night (1912)
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The Escape (1914)
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Friends (1912)
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The Sealed Room (1909)
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A Temporary Truce (1912)
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The Miser's Heart (1911)
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The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909)
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Waiter No. 5 (1910)
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San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake (1906)
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The Sunbeam (1912)
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The Fall of Babylon (1919)
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Teaching Dad to Like Her (1911)
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The Lady and the Mouse (1913)
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Enoch Arden: Part II (1911)
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The White Rose (1923)
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Ramona (1910)
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When a Man Loves (1911)
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His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
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The Fugitive (1910)
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The Last Drop of Water (1911)
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The Mountaineer's Honor (1909)
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The Voice of the Child (1911)
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The Invisible Fluid (1908)
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Father Gets in the Game (1908)
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The Lonedale Operator (1911)
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The Redman's View (1909)
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The Honor of His Family (1910)
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The Sacrifice (1909)
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The Primal Call (1911)
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A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)
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Near To Earth (1913)
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The Root of Evil (1912)
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The Necklace (1909)
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What the Daisy Said (1910)
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A String of Pearls (1912)
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McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio (1896)
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Love Finds a Way (1909)
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Swords and Hearts (1911)
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The Rose of Kentucky (1911)
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The Little Darling (1909)
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The Little Tease (1913)
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The Mender of Nets (1912)
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The Broken Locket (1909)
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The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
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Latina, Contortionist (1905)
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The Lesser Evil (1912)
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A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
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A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
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Fisher Folks (1911)
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The Trail of Books (1911)
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Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room (1905)
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Mr. Jones at the Ball (1908)
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The Suicide Club (1909)
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Hulda's Lovers (1908)
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The Cord of Life (1909)
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The Mothering Heart (1913)
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A Flash of Light (1910)
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909)
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Sweet and Twenty (1909)
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The Music Master (1908)
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The Midnight Girl (1925)
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909)
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King of the Cannibal Islands (1908)
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The Honor of Thieves (1909)
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The Way of Man (1909)
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The Maniac Cook (1909)
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Getting Even (1909)
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Scarlet Days (1919)
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The Idol Dancer (1920)
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Comata, the Sioux (1909)
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True Heart Susie (1919)
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Broken Ways (1913)
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They Would Elope (1909)
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The Lesson (1910)
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The Country Doctor (1909)
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Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)
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The Greatest Question (1919)
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The Valet's Wife (1908)
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Sunshine Sue (1910)
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A Rural Elopement (1909)
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The Day After (1909)
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New York Subway (1905)
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Wilful Peggy (1910)
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A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
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Sure-Fire Flint (1922)
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The Iconoclast (1910)
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The Long Road (1911)
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The Girl and Her Trust (1912)
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Girls Taking Time Checks (1904)
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Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908)
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The Welcome Burglar (1909)
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The Love Flower (1920)
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What Drink Did (1909)
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When Knights Were Bold (1908)
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912)
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The Fascinating Mrs. Francis (1909)
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Through the Breakers (1909)
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Money Mad (1908)
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The Curtain Pole (1909)
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The King's Messenger (1908)
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Olaf—An Atom (1913)
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Two Memories (1909)
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Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room (1904)
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Hotel Variety (1933)
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Italian Blood (1911)
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Stealing a Dinner (1899)
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Iola's Promise (1912)
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Happy Hooligan Interferes (1903)
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Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1905)
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The Christmas Burglars (1908)
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The Georgetown Loop (Colorado) (1901)
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The Wanderer (1913)
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The Criminal Hypnotist (1909)
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The Zulu's Heart (1908)
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Mr. Hurry-up (1907)
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A Trip to Salt Lake City (1905)
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A Kentucky Feud (1905)
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Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle (1904)
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The Dude and the Burglars (1903)
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Personal (1904)
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She Banked in Her Stocking; or, Robbed of Her All (1905)
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Betsy Ross Dance (1903)
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A Frontier Flirtation; or, How the Tenderfoot Won Out (1903)
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The Haymarket (1903)
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A Ballroom Tragedy (1905)
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The Physical Culture Girl, No. 2 (1903)
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The Hero of Liao-Yang (1904)
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Willie's Camera (1903)
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Married for Millions (1906)
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Westinghouse Works (1904)
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Fights of Nations (1907)
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Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium (1906)
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The Physical Culture Girl, No. 1 (1903)
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The Fate of the Artist's Model (1903)
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Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge (1899)
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Levi & Cohen, the Irish Comedians (1903)
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Weighing the Baby (1903)
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Murder Scene from "King of the Detectives" (1903)
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Testing a Rotary (1904)
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The Giddy Dancing Master (1903)
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The Chicken Thief (1904)
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Hooligan in Jail (1903)
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Trial Marriages (1907)
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Automobiling Among the Clouds (1904)
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Alone (1904)
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Bathing in the Ice at the L Street Bath, Boston (1905)
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