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
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