Billy Bitzer
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Gottfried Wilhelm Bitzer was an American cinematographer. He was a close associate of D. W. Griffith. He introduced various innovations in cinematography.
Bitzer, c. 1935
Bitzer (behind Pathé camera) with Griffith on location for Way Down East (1920)
In Old California is a 1910 American silent Western film. It was the first film shot in Hollywood, California. It was directed by D. W. Griffith of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. The fil
Billy Bitzer
…most important films and contributing significantly to cinematic innovations attributed to Griffith. In 1910, he photographed Griffith's silent short In Old California in the Los Angeles village of "Hollywoodland", qualifying Bitzer as, arguably, Hollywood's first Director of Photography. The apex of Bitzer and…
In old California