Still image from A Mouse's Tale!, an animation by 5th/6th grade students at Cambridgeport Elementary School
The latest animated movie to come out of the Animating Youth Project at Room 305 Productions was A Mouse's Tale! The movie was finished in June 2012 and marked the end of the Room 305 era, as the Cambridgeport school went through great changes and rearranges over the summer. The completion of A Mouse's Tale! meant we went out with a bang!
The movie mixes live action and paper cutout animation and tells the story of a classroom in disarray, until one student stumbles into the mysterious world of Fableland and comes to understand the importance of cooperation and teamwork. Isabel Eccles' 5th and 6th graders combined their literacy and social studies with the making of this animated film, creating an original fable story that addressed some of the conflicts they were experiencing in their own classroom. The result is a fun, beautiful, sparkling and inspiring short animated film, a gift to the school on the eve of great changes.
A Mouse's Tale made it's debut at the graduation ceremonies in June 2012 and can be seen as part of the Animating Youth! A Room 305 Retropsective show at Mobius January 19-23, 2013. It will be screened at Mobius along with other selections from the Animating Youth archives at 7pm on January 19th.
