A self-processing film unit including an image-recording section, a container for supplying a processing fluid to the image-recording section, and a resiliently flexible carrier permanently attached to the container and separably coupled at its trailing end to the leading end of the image-recording section. The carrier and container are especially adapted to be separated from the image-recording section by deflecting fenders that are spaced in a cooperating camera to engage the lateral edges of the carrier and to bend the carrier with its container into an arcuate path of movement diverging from the imagerecording section. The carrier is notched in both lateral edges at its trailing end, which provides a skirt of reduced transverse dimension that will straighten from the arcuate path and move between the deflecting fenders at approximately the same time the carrier and container are separated from the image-recording section. Thus, the carrier will move itself and the container under the forces of the carrier''s own resiliency to a position where it will not interfere with similar movement of a next successive film unit, and preferably to a generally flat position in a waste-collecting chamber of the camera or a corresponding cartridge in which the film unit was supplied.