Cinema of the United States that was friendly and enjoyed the movie company filming there. Griffith then filmed the first movie ever shot in Hollywood, "In Old California", a Biograph melodrama about California in the 19th century, when it belonged to Mexico. Griffith stayed there for months and made several films before returning to New York. After hearing about Griffith's success in Hollywood, in 1913, many movie-makers headed west to avoid the fees imposed by Thomas Edison, who owned patents on the movie-making process. Nestor Studios of Bayonne, New Jersey, built the first studio in Hollywood in 1911. Nestor Studios, owned by David and William
The Great Movie Ride that gave Disney worldwide rights to use the MGM name and logo for what would become Disney-MGM Studios (now known as Disney's Hollywood Studios), while separate contracts were used for "The Wizard of Oz", "Casablanca", "Singin' in the Rain", "A Fistful of Dollars", "The Public Enemy", "Tarzan the Ape Man" and "Footlight Parade" to give these films representation in The Great Movie Ride. Currently, WarnerMedia owns the rights to many of the original MGM films, which are handled by Warner Bros. and Turner Entertainment. The Great Movie Ride also included "Alien", distributed by 20th Century Fox, as Disney originally acquired