D. W. Griffith success; Biograph co-founder Harry Marvin gave Griffith the position, and he made the short "The Adventures of Dollie". He directed a total of 48 shorts for the company that year. His short "In Old California" (1910) was the first film shot in Hollywood, California. Four years later, he produced and directed his first feature film "Judith of Bethulia" (1914), one of the earliest to be produced in the US. Biograph believed that longer features were not viable at that point. According to Lillian Gish, the company thought that "a movie that long would hurt [the audience's] eyes". Griffith left Biograph
W. D. Richter and "Stealth". W. D. Richter W. D. Richter (born December 7, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He is best known for adapting "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", directing "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" and co-writing "Big Trouble in Little China". Richter graduated from Dartmouth College and attended USC film school. He began script writing for Hollywood in the 1970s. He wrote the hit comedy "Slither" (1973), followed by two similarly styled comedies, "Peeper" (1975) and "Nickelodeon" (1976). He branched into other genres starting with the remake of "Invasion of the Body