Today I spent time working with images of movies, movie still and movie sets. Some of the movies that were shot in Santa Cruz include: Maid of Salem, Evangeline, Old Hutch, Romance of Rosy ridge, Thunder Mountain, Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm & Forest Rangers. Some of the sets were really beautiful. The areas that they were shot include: Bonny Doon, Graham Hill and Glen Canyon. The movie sites were either in these areas or along these roads.
Some of the movie photos seemed to be just a collection of autographed headshots and movie still that Preston Sawyer Collected.
A little about Preston Sawyer.

Our Special Collections Department carries Preston Sawyer's historical photographs of Santa Cruz area and the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. We also have his photo albums and scrapbooks of the early film stars and movie industry in the Santa Cruz mountains. Also included are 16mm films of Santa Cruz events, negatives and glass plate negatives.

Preston Sawyer was a collector, proofreader and historical writer. He was born in Santa Cruz in 1899. He was a life-long bachelor who lived with his brother Ariel, also a bachelor, who ran the Sawyer Tile Company. As a youth, Preston Sawyer worked as a movie extra in the very early movie industry located in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A prolific amateur photographer, he snapped hundreds of pictures of the movie stars and the sets while waiting for work. In addition to taking his own, including, for example, a series of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, taken from a 16 year old's point of view, he also collected pictures covering early Santa Cruz and the surrounding areas.

More information about Preston Sawyer can be found at the Santa Cruz Public Library link: http://www2.santacruzpl.org/gallery2/main.php

I also processed a lot of train and railroad photographs which included tunnels and bridges.