The Nestor Film Company, originally known as the Nestor Motion Picture Company, was an American motion picture production company. It was founded in 1909 as the West Coast production unit of the Centaur Film Company located in Bayonne, New Jersey. While not the first movie studio in Los Angeles, Nestor made great strides on October 27, 1911, by establishing the first permanent motion picture studio in Hollywood, California, and producing the first Hollywood films. The company later merged with its distributor, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, on May 20, 1912. Nestor remained a recognizable brand name for Universal until at least the middle of 1917.
Nestor Film Company
Blondeau Tavern (1911)
Detail of the above photo Front row: Nestor camera operator Bill Piltz; general manager Al Christie; camera operator Walter Pritchard; Milton H. Fahrney (on horseback), director of Westerns; David Horsley with his young son; camera operator Tom Harding; Thomas Ricketts, director of dramas and comedies.
The Best Man Wins (1911), directed by Thomas Ricketts
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood.
The Hollywood Sign in front of Hollywood Hills in January 2019
Glen-Holly Hotel, Hollywood's first hotel, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street, was built in the 1890s.
H. J. Whitley (on left wearing a bowler hat) and the Hollywood Hotel (on left) at the corner of Highland Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard
Villa Las Colinas, a historic Mission Revival estate built by Charles E. Toberman in 1922
