The first movie studio in Hollywood, Nestor Studios, was established in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley in an old building at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. To escape Thomas Edison's movie production copyrights, many filmmakers began moving to Los Angeles. D.W. Griffith filmed the first movie in Hollywood, the 17-minute short "In Old California", in 1911. Nestor Studios filmed the first movie by a Hollywood studio, an unnamed film shot on October 26, 1911 on the Whitley family property. Major film studios like Warner Bros., Paramount, RKO, and Columbia established studios in Hollywood in the early 1900s, making it the center of the American film