In the spring of 1971 several students at Brigham Young University produced BYU's first student film made for class credit. "Ice Cream and Elevators" was financed by the BYU Culture Office headed by student body VP Russ Wood. The film was produced by Robert Starling and directed and edited by Dean Stubbs.
It is a playful campus romance that captures a slice-of-life of BYU campus culture at the time and some of the cherished dating traditions of that era.
The 28-minute movie was premiered before 6,000 students in the Smith Field House on campus on May 6, 1971, and it ran until the end of the term in the on-campus Varsity Theater. Since that time it has been an underground cult classic at BYU. It was entered in a student film festival in San Francisco but was disqualified because the judges said it was "too good to have been produced by students". However one judge wrote that if the film accurately depicted student life at Brigham Young University he wanted his daughter to enroll at BYU!