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A New Film Discovery!
In 1912, D. W. Griffith shot the first film in Pasadena on the Fenyes Estate. It was a fifteen minute short titled "When Kings Were the Law." Collections staff and volunteers have recently discovered that Griffith shot another film on the grounds.
"The Girl Who Stayed at Home," with Carol Dempster, Richard Barthelmess, Robert Harron, and Syn de Conde, was released on March 23, 1919. In the film two brothers, Richard Barthelmess and Robert Harron, go off to France to fight in the French Air Force. Eva Scott Fenyes, who loved when directors and actors came to her property, recorded the event in one of her sketchbooks, drawing the actors and even including a newspaper article on the filming.
In 2009, our Collections staff began cataloguing the Eva Scott Fenyes folio sketchbooks. There are 15 books, 14 of which contain approximately 3800 – 4000 drawings and watercolors. Each sketchbook and each drawing or painting is being photographed and then cataloged in Past Perfect, a collections database software. The sketchbooks and sketches have also undergone conservation work at The Huntington Library. In addition to Pasadena events, the sketchbooks contain numerous watercolors and drawings from Eva's travels. For example, many of the 1904 watercolor sketches of California adobes and missions appear to be field sketches for paintings later executed and donated to Southwest Museum/Autry National Center. This project has been made possible by the generous support of the Paloheimo Foundation.
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