Griffith then filmed the first movie ever shot in Hollywood, In Old California, a Biograph melodrama about California in the 1800s, while it belonged to Mexico.
The quality of Griffith's productions was generally considered superior to his contemporaries and his projects became more ambitious than the standard one real films.
In a paper published this week in Nature, a team from Griffith University in Australia have announced perhaps the biggest archaeological find from the island yet.