Hollywood the weather was ideal and there was quick access to various settings. Los Angeles became the capital of the film industry in the United States. The mountains, plains and low land prices made Hollywood a good place to establish film studios. Director D. W. Griffith was the first to make a motion picture in Hollywood. His 17-minute short film "In Old California" (1910) was filmed for the Biograph Company. Although Hollywood banned movie theaters—of which it had none—before annexation that year, Los Angeles had no such restriction. The first film by a Hollywood studio, Nestor Motion Picture Company, was shot
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