The Frome Cheese Show, the Carnival, Frome in Bloom were local events covered in later years. The clubs last big ciné effort was Running for Others which looked at how the Lions raised money for local charities with its Frome Fun Run. This required short items about the charities covered that year and eight camerapersons arranged, and re-arranged, with military precision around the route to record the actual run.
Our first video production was Ghost From the Past about the Valentine lamp lighting ceremony on Catherine Hill. Uphill All the Way was another film about Frome people raising money for charity with the Catherine Hill Sprint Challenge.
The Fun Run is no more but the Lions haven’t given up raising money for local charities and the club has continued to record these as well as other Frome based events such as Circuito del Mendip motorcycle rally.
This tradition is carried on by individual members who record the local scene.
Committee Member, Alan Campbell, taking part, and filming, Circuito del Mendip.
David Broom riding at the 100th Cheese Show.
Sylvester the Jester from Leicester entertains at the Frome Medieval Street Fair on Catherine Hill.
The Club and its members have always been keen on making films of local interest. That local interest has not always been Frome as many members live outside the town. The club has always been very much and district as in its original name Frome and District Ciné Club.
The clubs first local interest project was to mark the end of the Urban District Council. Frome 74 was made in its first year and considering hardly any of the members had made a film of their own at this point was a very credible effort.
It wasn’t long before the straight documentary approach was questioned as to the only way to put over factual subjects. Frome a New Look had most of the club members pressed into service as actors with Ernie McKenna, wife Anne, and their two young daughters, acting as a family looking at Frome as a place to settle down in the mid-seventies.
