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During the early days of silent films, Santa Barbara’s Flying A Studio’s facilities on West Mission Street were said to be as good as or better than any in Los Angeles. By 1916, the studio was cranking out 242 motion pictures a year. And it had stars, including a curly-haired teen, Mary Miles Minter, who went on to become what promoters fancied as the new Mary Pickford. But MMM saw her career crash and burn after a sex scandal involving the unsolved murder of a director. In t