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
James Bray Griffith by the American Technical Society in Chicago. The table of contents of "Accountancy and business management" was: Griffith had written several section such as the first chapter on "business organization and control", in 1909 also published under the title "Administrative and industrial organization." Another chapter by Griffith, entitled "the voucher system and accounting charts," was in 1917 republished as "Corporation Accounts and Voucher System." Griffith also wrote the section on "Purchasing and stores" co-authored with W. J. Graham, and the section on "Credits." A significant part of the co-authors and collaborators also participated in the 1910 "Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy,