Three years before the Venice Film Festival was founded, newspaper journalist, feminist writer, organizer, lecturer, and early advocate of equal rights for women, Mildred Taylor hosted the very first international film festival in 1929 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California with the screening of two controversial silent films.
In 1924, Taylor and her husband, artist James Blanding Sloan, established a second residence south of their Bay Area home in Carmel-by-the-Sea. At that time, Carmel was the largest art colony on the Pacific Coast. Blanding was hired by the University of California Extension Division to teach summer classes in Carmel, including instruction in etching, theatre design, and painting. He also contributed his prints to exhibitions at the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club and staged puppet performances for the local children.
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