Balboa Amusement Producing Company , also known as Balboa Studios , was at Sixth Street and Alamitos Avenue ; they used on Signal Hill for outdoor locations . Silent film stars who lived in Long Beach included Fatty Arbuckle and Theda Bara . The 1917 film '' Cleopatra '' , starring Theda Bara , was shot at the Dominguez Slough just west of Long Beach , and Moses parted the Red Sea for Cecil B. DeMille 's 1923 version of '' The Ten Commandments '' on the flat seashore of Seal Beach , southeast of Long Beach . Long Beach was the famous location of Paramount newsreel footage of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake , out-takes from the W.C. Fields 1933 featurette '' International House '' was possibly the first earthquake to be captured in action on film
1933 Long Beach earthquake
1933 Long Beach earthquake
Long Beach, California