Movie Company In A Real Collision
Car With Actors Collides With Rev. H. E. Beeks' Machine

A real auto collision, not intended for the films, took place this afternoon on Front Street. Members of the Robard-Reid Company had been enacting a jail scene in front of the county jail. The camera man had shot the picture of the woman emerging from the jail with its grated door and she had entered the auto, when a scene not in the scenario took place. The young actor was not much of a chauffeur and in driving it he ran directly into a car driven by Rev. H. E. Beeks, Methodist Church pastor. The fender of the right front wheel was smashed and the wheel twisted of the Beeks car.

Mr. Reid instructed Mr. Beeks to send his bill to him at Piedmont Court.

One of the movie actors, when told that it was the car of the Methodist minister, answered by saying, "Poor fellow, he could not say just what he felt."

Source: Santa Cruz Daily Surf , page 1
Date: 1917-03-07
Type: NEWS; DOCUMENT
Coverage: 1910s
Rights: Copyrighted by the Santa Cruz Daily Surf. Reproduced by permission.
Identifier: LN-1917-03-07-1094

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“Movie Company In A Real CollisionCar With Actors Collides With Rev. H. E. Beeks' Machine.” Santa Cruz Daily Surf , page 1. 1917-03-07. SCPL Local History. https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134785. Accessed 14 May 2024.