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And We Were Young
And We Were Young

AND WE WERE YOUNG

Directed by Andy Smetanka
United States, 2015
Animation, History, Documentary

Synopsis

Three years and over 250,000 individual frames in the making, And We Were Young is a stop-motion animated oral history of American soldiers in France in the last days of the Great War, performed entirely by black-paper puppets and filmed in Super 8 against translucent paper backgrounds.

Synopsis

Three years and over 250,000 individual frames in the making, And We Were Young is a stop-motion animated oral history of American soldiers in France in the last days of the Great War, performed entirely by black-paper puppets and filmed in Super 8 against translucent paper backgrounds.