History of Thanksgiving • A Stop Motion Story

This charming stop motion from 2013 tells the story of the origin of Thanksgiving. It’s courtesy of the students of Springdale Public Schools in Arkansas as a Happy Thanksgiving PSA for Springfield District Television.

With creative props and sets, good storytelling and simple, yet effective animation this video shows us that you don’t have to be perfect to create good work.

The students behind this production learned valuable lessons about lighting, camera placement and continuity as part of the heuristic learning process every animator must experience and still produced a meaningful, memorable piece and a nice message, particularly for those of us in the United States during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Uploaded to YouTube by Springdale Public Schools.