I don't remember which list was "talking" about digital story telling.
Dr. Craig Roland has a wonderful example using images alone on his Art
Junction Blog:
Building Imagination, The Power of Images
http://www.artjunction.org/blog/
"...a great example of digital storytelling using images alone,
created by University of Oklahoma students Mark Potts and Cole Selix."
The gist of the story.... a little boy finds he can escape the noise
of the city by building an enclosure of boxes. He lets his imagination
take him away to a wonderful playground.
If you are using IE - you may have to scroll down a bit to see the
entry on his blog - seems to be a glitch with IE. New entry is right
at the top in Mozilla.