Photo: Courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum
Silent Movie Actors on the Road
Dateline: September 1912
"The automobile plays an important part in the taking of moving pictures . . . The ['Flying A'] cowboys all go by horseback to the scene of a picture to be taken . . . The players make up at the studio on a morning when they are instructed to be ready for work. Very seldom do they know where they are going, but after climbing into the car, they are speeded to the scene . . . This strange mixture travels in a classy automobile." – Santa Barbara Morning Press, September 22, 1912
Quite a nice fleet of "Flying A" cars, eh?