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• Fred Evans, president of Los Angeles 8mm. Club and maker of consistently good 8mm. movies. Ten completed feature films that have had wide screening attest to his skill in all branches of the hobby.
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• Scene from "Home Movies" in which Joe Fumblebum, played by Evans, makes and screens his first home movie with bitter results.
• One of Evans' outstanding pictures is "Ice Follies" filmed with type A Kodachrome hypersensitized by the mercury-vapor process and shot at f 2.5. Photo is a production still made at the time the movie was filmed.
HIS is the story of an amateur movie maker — an amateur whose films consistently display such careful preparation and execution as to rank them far above the amateur's average effort. His are the kind of films you wish you had made, once you see them screened. One at once understands the difference between simply "shooting movies" and making good 8mm. motion pictures.
A movie maker only since 1940, Fred Evans has filmed and carefully edited and titled a total of ten complete subjects. His Hollywood home is a beehive of movie activity 365 days a year. Mrs. Evans and Fred, Jr., their 3year-old son, not only are Evans' frequent camera subj e c t s , but Mrs. Evans is one of those rare persons every cinebug
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hopes for in a wife — an enthusiastic filming companion and "brother" hobbyist.
This is important because in more instances than the victims care to admit, an unenthusiastic spouse completely lacking in understanding has been responsible in frustrating the artistry and filming efforts of many an otherwise promising movie amateur. Mrs. Evans, on the other hand, freely shares her husband's movie making enthusiarm and this has given him the freedom to explore every horizon of the amateur movie hobby.
As with most of us cinebugs, Evans' interest in home movies developed with advent of an heir in the household. Wishing to make movies of Fred Junior, Evans several times borrowed a friend's camera, shot a roll of the youngster's antics in the arms of first one relative and another. Occasionally papa Evans got in front of the camera while Mrs. Evans ran off the remaining footage on a spool so the film quickly could be gotten off to the laboratory. Oddly enough, with the ten productions subsequently filmed long ago completed.
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