D.W. Griffith was one of the pioneering directors of Hollywood, practically inventing the art of the motion picture. Toward the end of his life however, he was living at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood and all but forgotten. (He didn’t take too well to the talkies.) He died summer of 1948 and this photo, taken in July 1948, shows the people who turned out the day of his funeral. This is Hollywood Boulevard and the Hollywood Masonic Temple is where the Jimmy Kimmel TV show is now taped.