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 Struggle (film) a Code Seal from the Breen Office unless cuts were made, so decided not to do it. In 1940 another distributor B.A. Mills considered re-releasing it under the title "Ten Nights in a Barroom" but encountered similar difficulties. Griffith never made another movie although he did marry an actress from the film, Evelyn Baldwin. The Struggle (film) The Struggle is a 1931 American Pre-Code feature film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was his only other full-sound film besides "Abraham Lincoln" (1930). After several films directed by Griffith failed at the box office, "The Struggle" was Griffith's last film. The