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
Frederick W. Griffith State Senate from 1910 to 1912, sitting in the 133rd, 134th and 135th New York State Legislatures. He was a presidential elector in 1916, voting for the Republican candidates Charles Evans Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks. On August 3, 1918, he married Martha (Riggs) Truax. He was President of the Garlock Packing Company in Palmyra. The company manufactured packing and sealing products; and was taken over by Colt Industries in 1975. He died suddenly on July 11, 1928, in Pasadena, California; and was buried at the Palmyra Cemetery in Palmyra, New York. Frederick W. Griffith Frederick Winter Griffith (December 17,