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
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,