Summaries

An animated oral history of World War I.

And We Were Young is a stop-motion, silhouette-animation oral history of American soldiers, 'Doughboys,' in the last months of the Great War. Missoula, Montana animator Andy Smetanka cut thousands of paper figures and colored backgrounds and filmed them one frame at a time, on a Soviet-era Super 8 camera, over the course of three years to produce a brutal, hauntingly beautiful, and thoroughly original vision of America's war, narrated entirely in the words of the ones who were there.

Details

Keywords
  • world war one
Genres
  • Animation
  • History
  • War
  • Documentary
Release date Feb 15, 2015
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Missoula, Montana, USA

Box office

Budget $32000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 15m
Color Color
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Synopsis

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