After Cecil B. DeMille produced the feature-length film The Squaw Man near Highland and Sunset, Hollywood became the center of the film industries in the 1920s.
Hollywood first became the center of the film industry in the 1920s, after Cecil B. DeMille set up the town's first movie studio near Highland and Sunset in a horse barn and filmed The Squaw Man, the first feature-length film, in 1913.