It’s hard to reconcile the constant hustle and bustle of the Hollywood of today with this pastoral scene showing us Hollywood in 1910. This is the year that DW Griffith traveled with the Biograph Company from their downtown LA studio to shoot the first motion picture ever shot in Hollywood, In Old California. (Cecil B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1913) was the first feature length film made in Hollywood.) It was ironic then that In Old California couldn’t be seen in Hollywood because at the time, movie theaters had been banned.
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