Freeman, Jim
Surf filmmaker from Santa Ana, California; co-creator, along with Greg MacGillivray, of the 1972 surf movie classic Five Summer Stories. Freeman was born (1944) and raised in Santa Ana. Let There Be Surf, his debut film, was released in 1963; over the next two years he produced Outside the Third Dimension (surfing's only 3-D movie) and The Glass Wall. He was also cohost for the 1964 Los Angeles–ba...
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Scenes from Jim Freeman's "The Glass Wall" (1965)Subscribe to view
Jim Freeman. Photo: Greg MaGillivraySubscribe to view
Jim Freeman, 1967Subscribe to view
Detail from "Let There be Surf" (1963)Subscribe to view
Bill Hamilton (left) and Mark Martinson, stars of MacGillivray-Freeman's Free and Easy (1967)Subscribe to view
Jim Freeman, 1964, shooting "Outside the Third Dimension"Subscribe to view
Scenes from Jim Freeman's "The Glass Wall" (1965)
Jim Freeman. Photo: Greg MaGillivray
Jim Freeman, 1967
Detail from "Let There be Surf" (1963)
Bill Hamilton (left) and Mark Martinson, stars of MacGillivray-Freeman's Free and Easy (1967)
Jim Freeman, 1964, shooting "Outside the Third Dimension"