The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company is the oldest motion picture company in America, established in 1895. Among Biograph's other accomplishments were being the first producers to film the Pope Leo XIII at the Vatican (1896); and the first company to film a movie in Hollywood, California "In Old California" (1910). Biograph also was the first major movie company to give complete creative control to a Black American, vaudevillian/comedian Bert Williams, who produced, directed and starred in the short comedies "Fish" (1916), and "Natural Born Gambler" (1916). Film Director D. W. Griffith joined Biograph in 1908 and helped establish many of the conventions of narrative film as well as helped the company become a major commercial success. Many early movie stars were Biograph performers, including Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Bobby Harron and Blanche Sweet. Mack Sennett honed his craft as a director of comedies at Biograph. Biograph was also the first known film company in Downtown Los Angeles, California, when back to 1906, Biograph established its first California and a movie lot at Girard and Georgia Streets, now the site of the Los Angeles Convention Center. Also in 1906 Biograph filmed Los Angeles’ first movie "A Daring Southern California Train Robbery". In January of 1910, D. W. Griffith, and the rest of the Biograph actors and crew, traveled to Los Angeles again, and film in a small village they had heard about that was friendly, and had beautiful floral scenery. They decided to travel there, and fell in love with this little place. The place was Hollywood. Biograph then made the first film ever in Hollywood called "In Old California (1910)", a Latino melodrama about the early days of Mexico-owned California. Griffith and the Biograph troup then filmed other short movies at various locations, then travelled back to New York. After the east coast film community heard about Hollywood, other film companies began to migrate there. Biograph's little film launched Hollywood as the future movie capital of the world. In 1984, with the help of silent film actress Blanche Sweet, Biograph was revived in 1987 by producer Thomas R. Bond II, and his father the late actor Tommy Bond who portayed  "Butch" in the Little Rascals. In 1991 the ompany was incorporated in the state of California.  Biograph is still an independent film and entertainment company and is located in Beverly Hills, California.