Last night at the Paramount’s silent movie, a 1915 adaptation of Carmen directed by Cecil B. DeMille, I was amused to note what appeared to me to be the profile of the cliff known as Dana Point prominently featured in the center of the screen during the opening sequence, a picturesque scene of smugglers landing goods in in a longboat.
Which makes lots of sense since, as everyone knows, Seville is nowhere close to the coast. OK, it’s closer than, say, Madrid. Still doesn’t make it a coastal city…