The method
How an experiment gets told.
Short films on the landmark experiments that changed science — the world before, the design, the result, and why it was beautiful. Every claim traces to a primary source.
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Write the script
Every film answers the same four things: the world before the experiment, how the experiment was designed, the decisive result, and why it was beautiful. The design and the result are built up step by step — one narration segment per step — so the reasoning is shown, never asserted. Each factual claim gets a tag like [F1] so it can be checked later.
- 02
Check every claim
Each tagged claim is matched to a primary or authoritative source, and the points people commonly get wrong are written out carefully. A subject-matter reviewer signs off on the whole set before anything is recorded — narration is expensive to fix after the fact, so the check happens first.
- 03
Draw the walkthrough
The look is a drafting table: deep indigo ink on warm graph paper with a single brass accent. The logic of the experiment — tapes, counts, gradients, plots — is drawn as schematic diagrams; the scientists and their era are archival ink-and-wash, always faceless. No two experiments are laid out the same way.
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Record and render
The voiceover is recorded first; its timing drives the rest. The video is built as code — React rendered frame by frame — then exported to an MP4. A last pass checks every caption stays readable over whatever's behind it.
Why it matters
Most explainers ask you to take the narrator's word for it. Here, every [F#] on screen is a footnote you can open — and every source for a film is listed in full on its page.