Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Buckwalter ya fara yin tafiye-tafiye don kamfanonin jirgin kasa da ke tattare da al'amuran Yammacin, inda ya yi gwaji da kuma ingantawa ga zane-zane na kyamara mai sauri. Yawancin waɗannan fina-finai na farko an nuna su a cikin Hale's Tours of the World, wani tafiya mai ban sha'awa da aka yi a cikin motar jirgin kasa. A cikin 1900, Buckwalter ya fara aiki tare da darakta da mai shirya William Selig, mai shirya fina-finai a Chicago kuma ya zama wakilin Yammacin Kamfanin Selig Polyscope yana siyarwa da rarraba masu gabatar da Selig da fina-finai zuwa gidajen wasan kwaikwayo a yankin. A shekara ta 1902 Buckwalter ya kafa wani studio da ake kira "Buckwalter Films" kuma ya fara jagorantar da kuma samar da gajeren fina-finai na shiru wanda ya fara da "The Girls in the Overalls", labarin 'yan mata bakwai da ke gudanar da gonar iyali bayan mutuwar iyayensu, a daya daga cikin fina-finai na yammacin farko a Amurka. Kamfanin Royal Photographic Society ya ba da "Panorama na Royal Gorge" da "Panorama na Ute Pass" babban kyauta a wani baje kolin a 1903. Yawancin fina-finai na Buckwalter an nuna su a 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Ka yi haƙuri. A shekara ta 1905, an gayyaci Buckwalter don yin fim da kuma yin rikodin tafiyar farautar Shugaba Theodore Roosevelt a yammacin Colorado. A cikin 1910 Buckwalter Films ya zama wani ɓangare na Kamfanin Fina-Finan Janar.