(Portion of article from Newsweek Magazine, January 17, 1966) ARTICLE TITLE: 8-mm Fellinis As the film begins, a spaceship from earth sets down on a barren, crater pocked moon. An exploratory vehicle detaches itself and lumbers off just as a ray beamed from a nearby crater disintegrates the mother ship. The vehicle invades the crater and the astronauts aboard discover a moon base inhabited by a tiny, faceless creature. After a violent battle, the astronauts escape as the moon base explodes. A scene from TV's "Lost in Space" or "Outer Limits"? One of Universal's assembly-line space operas? Not quite. It's an exclusive Bob Moats Jr. production, all four minutes of it. The 16-year-old Detroit area high school student filmed his "Moon War" on location in the family garage on a budget of $4; "Moon War" employs a flashlight "spaceship," a papier-mache "moon" and a cast of the producer's teen-age pals (used when he cut from his models to live battle action). Moats, who is now shooting a spy thriller called "TeenAgents" has his counterparts in nearly every U.S. community. Adults, of course, have long been making amateur movies and lately the craze has swept so many campuses that UCLA recently held a college film festival (Newsweek, Oct. 25). Small wonder, then, that the generation weaned on the TV tube should finally catch the bug. And with cheaper, easier-to-operate equipment, the kids have discovered that they can become moviemakers for the price of two Beatles' albums and a Herman sweatshirt. "They just eat it up," says John Regan, an art teacher whose high-school class in Evanston. Ill, produced a Disneyesque fairy tale called "The Asparagus Kingdom." The films being cranked out by the 8-mm. Fellinis run from a few minutes to a half hour, feature everything from.clay figures to casts of twenty, and ..... (rest left out)