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This interesting memoir is tantalizing in its brevity, but a useful document nonetheless. Bitzer was one of the first professional cinematographers in America, from the time filmmaking was first invented, and worked famously with D.W. Griffith, the pioneer director of some of the best-remembered American films of the 19-teens.
24 de mar. de 2020 · An Interview by Beaumont Newhall. When Griffith joined Biograph he was fortunate to find in the studio G. W. Bitzer, who had been with the company since 1896, first as electrician, but soon as a jack-of-all-trades —cameraman, property man, scenic designer and director. The two at once became companions, and for sixteen years Bitzer almost ...
19 de feb. de 2024 · Bitzer went on, thanks to his association with D.W. Griffith, to serve as cameraman on some of the most famous films ever made, including The Birth of a Nation (1915), but his pre-Griffith works bears its own fascinations simply by their survival and what they show us about the world of yesterday.
Gottfried Wilhelm Bitzer, connu comme G. W. Bitzer, également connu sous le surnom de Billy Bitzer (né le 21 avril 1872 à Roxbury, un quartier de Boston, dans le Massachusetts [1] et mort le 29 avril 1944 (à 72 ans) à Hollywood) est un directeur de la photographie, réalisateur et scénariste américain ayant principalement exercé durant la période du muet.
It is true that Griffith’s self-cultivated reputation as a Romantic artist—“the father of film technique,” “the man who invented Hollywood,” “the Shakespeare of the screen,” and the like—is somewhat overblown. It is also true that by 1908 film narrative had already been systematically organized to accommodate the material ...
Billy Bitzer. Gottfried Wilhelm "Billy" Bitzer (April 21 1874 – April 29 1944) was a pioneering cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith, working with him on some of his most important film s and contributing significantly to cinematic innovations attributed to Griffith.
15 de feb. de 2014 · Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer. April 21, 1874. Roxbury, Massachusetts. Died. April 29, 1944 (age 70) Hollywood, California. Billy Bitzer (1874-1944) started out pursuing his interest in magic and developing novelty toys before becoming a celebrated cameraman of the earliest years of American cinema, chiefly through his association with D.W ...
