An Old Woman Finds a Polaroid Camera in This Touching Cartoon

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When was the last time you saw an animated short and felt a lump in your throat? This cartoon was an undergraduate thesis for Christina Manrique and Brendon Clogher, both animation students at the Loyola Marymount University in LA:

In the short film, Photographs, an old woman living in a ghost town finds herself a Polaroid camera. In doing so she finds a way to relive her best days, taking selfies at places that are intertwined with the memories of her loved one.

Completed over one and a half years and encompassing thousands of hours of meticulous work, this animated short encompasses a very interesting script that transforms into an equally absorbing six minutes of animation especially for photographers.