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 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