Hollywood the weather was ideal and there was quick access to various settings. Los Angeles became the capital of the film industry in the United States. The mountains, plains and low land prices made Hollywood a good place to establish film studios. Director D. W. Griffith was the first to make a motion picture in Hollywood. His 17-minute short film "In Old California" (1910) was filmed for the Biograph Company. Although Hollywood banned movie theaters—of which it had none—before annexation that year, Los Angeles had no such restriction. The first film by a Hollywood studio, Nestor Motion Picture Company, was shot
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,