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Journeys of Discovery: Santa Barbara movie industry predates Hollywood
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:35:08
Publish Date: 2020-07-06 17:18:32
Description: Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Santa Barbara historian Betsy J. Green about Santa Barbara’s Flying A Studios , which was producing movies before the advent of Hollywood. Green also shares insights about the 1918 flu epidemic in Santa Barbara, and how the 1925 earthquake that destroyed numerous buildings spurred the city to mandate all city-core reconstruction projects to employ California Mission-Revival architectural motifs.
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