biography
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Bitzer, Billy
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popular name of Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1944)
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| biography:
| Cinematographer, born in Roxbury (now part of Boston), Massachusetts, USA. A former silversmith, he joined and became cameraman of the company that was to become Biograph in 1894. In 1908 he began his association with D W Griffith, photographing most of his films until 1920. A master innovator of camerawork, his best films include The New York Hat (1912), The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), and Broken Blossoms (1919). |
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