Behind the Scenes at the “Flying A”: A talk by Betsy J. Green
Santa Barbara became the center of the movie-making world when the Chicago-based American Film Manufacturing Company opened the largest production facility in the country in 1913. Known as the “Flying A" due to its winged logo, the studio produced over twelve hundred films. Local papers and national movie magazines published the adventures – and misadventures – of the silent movie actors and film crews who gathered here all together for the first time.