When We Were Young
Season 5 Episode 29 | 3m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
A young woman returning to her grandmother's finds the house empty but full of memories.
A young woman returning to her grandmother's finds the house empty but full of memories. She reconciles the past with her new role as caretaker in this sweet animated short.
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Film School Shorts is made possible by a grant from Maurice Kanbar, celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image, and by the members of KQED.
When We Were Young
Season 5 Episode 29 | 3m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
A young woman returning to her grandmother's finds the house empty but full of memories. She reconciles the past with her new role as caretaker in this sweet animated short.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(tape being inserted into VCR) (nostalgic music) (video tape static) (high winds blowing) (thump) (hurried footsteps) Narrator: Grandma?
Grandma!?
(soft music) Narrator: I was young once, and so were you.
Your hair was brown then.
You told us not to play in the garden, and (laughs) we did, (children running) but we were young then.
(water draining) And so were you.
You sang then, (water boiling) and now, but you don't dance anymore, so I dance for us, (feet tapping) and you laugh (kiss).
(thunder) (nostalgic music) I was young once, and I needed a lot of help, but still (kiss) you loved me.
(hurried footsteps) (doorstop turning) (knocking) (ambulance siren) And now I love you.
(heart monitor beeping) (muffled voices) And so I come, (nostalgic music) as I came when we were young.
And we grow old (contented sigh) together.
(film reel spinning) (video tape being ejected)
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Film School Shorts is made possible by a grant from Maurice Kanbar, celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image, and by the members of KQED.