Image: (Exhibitors Herald, December 12, 1925)
Hollywood Returns to SB
One of the first movies to be filmed in our area after the June 1925 earthquake was filmed out near San Miguel Island. Richardson Rock, a rocky islet near San Miguel, was used by the Fox studio for scenes in a silent movie called The Ancient Mariner. The filming there took 10 days.
Clara Bow and Earle Williams had the leading roles. The movie takes place in the present day but includes a dream sequence from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.