Filming of Hollywood's First Feature Film

Date: December 29, 1913 • Location: Hollywood, United States

Cecil B. DeMille starts filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man.

Cecil Blount DeMille was an American filmmaker and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he created 70 features including silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history, with many films dominating the box office three or four at a time. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.