America's first motion picture industry can trace its roots to the Hudson River towns of New Jersey, especially Fort Lee. Nestor Studios (which merged into Universal Studios) began in Bayonne. Pathé, the France-based company that during the first part of the 20th century was the largest film equipment and production company in the world, established an American factory and studio facility in The Heights in 1910, the building of which still stands overlooking Paterson Plank Road. It also established the Eclectic Film Company as a subsidiary distribution company for both its American and European product. Although the Jersey City plant produced moderately popular comedies, dramas, and newsreels largely directed at the US market, "Perils of Pauline" was the first American-made Pathé effort to achieve worldwide success under the Eclectic banner.