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
Ramona lines to Southern California were just opening and, combined with the emotions stirred by the novel, the region suddenly gained national attention. The Mission Revival Style architecture became popular from about 1890 to 1915, with many examples standing throughout California and other southwest areas. "Ramona" has been adapted several times for other media. The first was a silent film by the same name, released in 1910. It was directed by D. W. Griffith and starred Mary Pickford. Other versions were made in 1928, 1936 and 1946. Ramona Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in