From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.

Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Lickety Split, The Snail.

Um.

Everyone thinks snails are so slow.

Have you ever heard the phrase a snail's pace?

It means super duper slow.

Rude.

Some snails, like me, like to do things quickly and efficiently.

I can clean the inside of my snail shell in just two and a half minutes. I never talk while I'm eating so I can nibble up my leafy meals as fast as possible.

Oh, and whenever I want to take a picture of something, I use my snail-sized Polaroid camera.

If you haven't seen one before, Polaroid cameras are a special kind of camera that takes physical photos almost instantly.

As soon as you snap the button, a little piece of paper pops out of the bottom of the camera,

and in just a couple minutes, a photo appears on the paper.

It's super cool and fast enough for a speedster snail like me.

I mean, if you want physical photos to hang on your wall, why go all the way to a store to print them when you can just have them ready in minutes.

To understand how Polaroid cameras work, you have to know a little bit about how an old-fashioned

camera works. Long before we had smartphones that took photos instantly, we had cameras with

film inside. Film is a thin, plastic-y material that's sensitive to light.

When you press a button on your camera, a little hole opens up that lets light inside,

and that light hits the film.

Then, a chemical reaction happens on the film, which turns into a picture.

After that, for an old-fashioned film camera,

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