Image: (Exhibitors Herald, July 11, 1925)
The Latest Buzz in SB
Dateline: May 1925
A Hollywood movie studio was in Santa Barbara this month filming scenes for a movie called "The Keeper of the Bees." The filming, as you might expect, involved those little critters. "A unique property being used is a consignment of 60 hives of bees, with an expert apiarist in charge of them. [The director] claims the bees are trained so they will not sting the actors, and added guardedly that he hoped the man was correct. (There were no further stories about the filming, so apparently the bees bee-haved.)
[Spoiler alert – this was the last movie filmed in Santa Barbara before the June 29 earthquake.]