In 1910, the California Motion Picture Manufacturing Company built the first movie studio in the city of
Long Beach. This was also the first studio west of Chicago, since the hub of film-making at that time was in New York. In April 1913, H. M. Horkheimer (along with his brother, Elwood) invested their inheritance in the purchase of the studio built by the California Motion Picture Manufacturing Company at the corner of 6th Street and Alamitos Ave. This became the center of their Balboa Amusement Producing Company. The Balboa company would advertise that they would be the first to release the film and announced their own version of
The Sea Wolf and several other adaptations of London's works. In an article in
Motion Picture News in which
Hobart Bosworth stated the production would be ready by October 1 and there is no reason to doubt the contract between Bosworth and London. The publication received a telegram from Jack London confirmed that Balboa's contract had lapsed because of a failure to produce four films by the stipulated date. London also stated that the first film had not even been completed by this point. When the matter was taken to court, the federal judge in Los Angeles refused to grant an injunction on Balboa's three reel version of the film and H. M. Horkheimer was considering suing for damages by Bosworth. The judge allowed the case to be re-opened and the
Authors' League of America announced a desire to take it to the United States Supreme Court if necessary. London won the case and influenced the United States Congress to change the copyright law in the writer's favor. ==Filmography==