Scope and Contents A girl, Beth, and her boyfriend, Cam, help her new roommate move in and have a celebratory dinner. Cam walks in on the new roommate, Amy, and her lesbian girlfriend kissing and is disturbed by it and the fact that his girlfriend lives with a lesbian. When he tells a friend about it, the friend councils him to get to know Amy as he might discover she's cool and they have common interests...other than girls. When he goes over to Beth and Amy's house he meets Gavin, a friend of Amy's, and they...

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"Jules" director and actors interviewed by HBO's 30x30 Kids Films about the making of the film and how they converted Ogden and Salt Lake City into France for the film.

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A photojournalist, who worked on the front during the Vietnam War, is confronted years later by a colleague at the institution where he has been for twenty years after the war struggling with the guilt which has consumed him for his inaction during the events which scared him for life. The two men help to heal one another by sharing their experiences, discussing their flashbacks and nightmares, and discussing photography as a therapeutic means to recovery.

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A large black amoeba attempts to eat a particle only to have it stolen by a small red amoeba. The black amoeba then eats the red amoeba but is attacked by its companions who break the large black amoeba into smaller ones. The group of black amoebas then meets the red amoebas in battle when a zoom out shot show all of this is taking place in a glass of water being drunk by a man.

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City mice move to the desert where they encounter the locals. When the city mice realize their TV antenna didn't survive the move, the son of the city mice and the daughter of the desert mice work out a solution to unite their families by connecting their burrows and sharing a TV.

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Two girls, Mary and Scarlet, find they can get along after all when Scarlet (the popular girl) dismisses the pressure of her crowd of friends to be kind to Mary (the outcast) who acts and looks different from all the other girls. When confronted by her friends about accepting Mary, Scarlet stands up for Mary and the two become close friends.

Scope and Contents Residents of both the east and west sides of Salt Lake give their opinions about where the division of east and west is located, as well as myths and beliefs about property value, violence, crime, and diversity of the two sides. Residents of the west side give their opinions about the bias of the media's attention to negative incidents in their side of town when crime, in their opinions, is equal on both sides of town. Young adults from both sides of town come together to confront one...

Scope and Contents Four space crew members sit around a table in their spaceship as they eat when one of the crew members, Jim, bets another, Ryan, that there is intelligent life "out there." Ryan accepts the bet and while they are still sitting around the table eating, their ship is invaded by alien life forms and Jim tells Ryan that he'd better pay up for loosing the bet. The Gornaks who invaded the ship discuss their sinister plans for the abducted crew members but when the crew members are being...

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A mysterious airplane flying over a house drops a toxic powder which causes the house and all of its contents to come alive. Vegetables and appliances alike animate to dance around the kitchen.

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A young girl watches TV alone and unhappy until she picks up a magazine and finds an ad for a friend machine which will allow her to make friends with the pull of a lever. Three to five business days after ordering, her friend machine arrives. After some assembly, she has a friend.

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A tree-vine-swinging man smashes into a tree and falls to the ground only to have a chimp throw a coconut on his head.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Spy Hop Productions independent film collection (2000-2009) consists of raw footage and finished films assembled by elementary and high school aged filmmakers under the tutelage of Spy Hop Productions, a Salt Lake City not-for-profit youth media center specializing in educational solutions through the multimedia arts. The collection contains narrative, claymation and documentary films and includes extensive footage about Salt Lake City hosting the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Many films...