Strange but true! Billy Bitzer (Gottfried Wilhelm or “G.W.” Bitzer, 1874-1944) shares a birthday with Edwin S. Porter. The stars were clearly aligned for cinematic innovation on certain April 21sts. If you’d quizzed me in an unguarded moment in my early days of silent cinema research, I might have accidentally told you that Billy Bitzer […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:00AM on April 21, 2015