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Were they stars? Galileo, January 1610

Galileo's notebook and his printed book, night by night from 7 to 13 January, the drawings ringed and matched; a famous page the library itself calls a forgery set aside.

Example of Investigation Film16:9 · 84 s

Public-domain scans from Florence's national library and the Smithsonian; Carlos's 1880 translation.

AvailableFull-film skill

Investigation Film

One question, answered on screen from the records themselves.

Install it in your coding agent from its skill page: the install prompt, what it needs and the price are there.

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$4.90 once, with its updates · or every skill from $9.90 a month

Good fit for

  • How we know something about a historical event, from its records
  • A short documentary for a channel, a museum or a class from an archive

Not for

  • Accusations against living people or true crime about private people
  • A story with no records you can show
Example prompt
Use the investigation-director skill to make a 90-second film answering how we know [a historical fact], from the original records, with each page on screen.

More example films

How far did it reach? Krakatoa, August 1883

The Royal Society's 1888 report on screen: a police chief's account nearly 3,000 miles away, a London barometer's seven passages, and the committee's probable moment checked against a gas-works gauge.

Example of Investigation Film16:9 · 107 s

A public-domain scan of the report; one quiet line for the lives lost, in the report's own figure.

Built-in styles

Visual Investigation

The real pages on a dark desk, one accent that points, a clock.

Collage

Cut-out photos, paper and highlights, like a news explainer.

Example film from Timeline Video

Data Story

Charts that grow from the real numbers, one point at a time.

Example film from Data Video

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