A scene from The Blue Moon
(Exhibitors Herald, October 23, 1920)
A Pearl Hunt in Goleta
Dateline: October 1920
When the "Flying A" was nearing the end of its days, the studio filmed scenes for a movie in Goleta, California. The story called The Blue Moon was set in the Wabash flats of Indiana, but the studio decided that they could film closer to home.
"A night scene of a pearl hunt on the river, when the 'blue moon' – a pearl that looks 'like a full moon in a cold sky' – was found . . . Some of the river scenes were filmed on a portion of Goleta Slough, a tidewater inlet from the Pacific Ocean . . . The opening scenes take place on a picturesque houseboat built especially for this picture." – Exhibitors Herald, October 16, 1920