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WATCH THIS: Here's a Cool Stop-Motion Movie Created by Iowa City Elementary Students

Students from Lemme and Lincoln Elementary Schools collaborated on a short stop-motion movie called "The Robot and the Butterfly."


What do you get when you combine a robot, a butterfly, 200 sounds, 10,000 pictures and a whole bunch of elementary school student filmmakers.

The answer: a cool little stop-motion movie called "The Robot and the Butterfly."

From the YouTube description, this film is a year long art project created by the students at Lemme and Lincoln Elementary Schools and is "the story of one little robot and the adventure it goes on to capture its muse: the butterfly." Students from ages Kindergarten through 6th grade worked together on the project.

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You can read more about the process that went into making the video in this article by Alesha Crews of the Press-Citizen.

Lincoln and Lemme art teacher Mark Jones said that making the film was never an assignment, it was more of a side project that the students worked on when they had extra time.

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“The cool thing about this is that kindergarten all the way through sixth grade worked on this. Every student worked on this, and they could all do it,” Jones said.

The article notes that the student film has been entered into local and international film festivals.

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