In late September, a bit of Hollywood plopped down in Pleasantville, N.Y., red carpet and flashbulbs included.
Alighting from vans and school buses, 7-, 8- and 9-year-old children strutted into the lobby of a quaint storefront theater, as parents and teachers snapped pictures.
The event was to showcase the animated films the children had produced during a summer program, one part of an expanding education operation that emanates from the nonprofit Jacob Burns Film Center in Westchester County, and now includes nearly 85 percent of the county’s school districts.
The goal is no less than redefining education in the digital age, a tough task at a time when anything considered an extra is very likely to come under budget scrutiny. Nevertheless, on Friday, the film center will open its new Media Arts Lab, a $15 million, 27,000-square-foot plant crammed with digital studios just down the road from the main theater. It is like a giant audiovisual department for the nearby schools.
And it is starting to reach into other sorts of institutions.
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