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Article: Movie magic: kids bring stories to life.(Cover story)
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- WR News, Edition 3 (including Science Spin)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2009
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Have you ever tried broccoli ice cream? That's what Oliver serves his customers in the new movie Oliver's Organic Ice Cream.
The one-minute film was created by kids. A film is a movie. The young students learned their moviemaking skills at the Jacob Burns Film Center. The center is in Pleasantville, New York. Kids who go there learn how to make movies and music videos.
The character Oliver and his gross treats are animated. In an animated movie, objects, such as ice cream and paper dolls, appear to be alive or moving.
Animated movies are made up of hundreds of pictures. It takes 15 pictures to make just one second of film. To make a movie that ...