In 1912, silent film producer/director Thomas Ince built a city of motion picture sets in and around the area where Sunset Boulevard now meets the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Having a studio that met his exact specifications probably helped him film over 150 two-reeler movies, mostly Westerns, in 1915. The studio became known as Inceville. Ince would later form the Triangle Film Corporation with Adolph Zukor, Mack Sennett, and DW Griffith. Located in Culver City, it would later evolve into MGM.

Here’s a shot of one of their more elaborate filming stages:

This is how that intersection looked in December 2020: