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2 unusual facts about American Film Manufacturing Company


American Film Company

American Film Manufacturing Company, an early-day motion picture production company called Flying "A" Studios, because of its logo of a capital A with wings, that was based in Santa Barbara, California.

Leona Hutton

Her final role was as Beth Taylor in The Man Who Would Not Die (1916), a feature length drama starring Russell, who also directed with Jack Prescott at Flying "A" Studios in Santa Barbara.


Edward Sloman

Sloman quit Lubin altogether and went to the American Film Company ("Flying A") studio in Santa Barbara, where he assumed an important role in that company's expanding feature-length film output (especially in directing several films starring Mary Miles Minter) and also directed other prestige projects such as the serial The Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky (1916).

Nell Franzen

She starred in several silent films, most of them with the American Film Company of Santa Barbara, in which she often acted opposite Constance Crawley and Arthur Maude.


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