<P> The first feature film to be made was the 1906 Australian silent The Story of the Kelly Gang, an account of the notorious gang led by Ned Kelly that was directed and produced by the Melburnians Dan Barry and Charles Tait . It ran, continuously, for eighty minutes . </P> <P> In the early 1910s, the film industry had fully emerged with D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation . Also in the early 1900s motion picture production companies from New York and New Jersey started moving to California because of the good weather and longer days . Although electric lights existed at that time, none were powerful enough to adequately expose film; the best source of illumination for movie production was natural sunlight . Besides the moderate, dry climate, they were also drawn to the state because of its open spaces and wide variety of natural scenery . </P> <P> The earliest documented account of an exhibition of projected motion pictures in the United States was in June 1894 in Richmond, Indiana by Charles Francis Jenkins . The first movie studio in the Hollywood area, Nestor Studios, was founded in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley in an old building on the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street . In the same year, another fifteen Independents settled in Hollywood . Hollywood came to be so strongly associated with the film industry that the word "Hollywood" came to be used colloquially to refer to the entire industry . </P> <P> In 1913 Cecil B. DeMille, in association with Jesse Lasky, leased a barn with studio facilities on the southeast corner of Selma and Vine Streets from the Burns and Revier Studio and Laboratory, which had been established there . DeMille then began production of The Squaw Man (1914). It became known as the Lasky - DeMille Barn and is currently the location of the Hollywood Heritage Museum . </P>

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