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The race to the South Pole

Amundsen and Scott on one time axis: who got there first, and the 34 days between them.

Example of Timeline Video16:9 · 59 s

From Amundsen's The South Pole and Scott's journals, both public domain.

AvailableFull-film skill

Timeline Video

Events in order, every date and claim sourced.

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

Install or buy

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

Good fit for

  • A stretch of history, for a class or a channel
  • Your company's or project's story, from its own records

Not for

  • One idea explained (use the Explainer Video skill)
  • A year of numbers (use the Team Update or Data Video skill)
Example prompt
Use the timeline-director skill to make a 1-minute film of the race to the South Pole, 1911–1912.

More example films

The birth of the web

From a memo at CERN in 1989 to 1% of the US research backbone in 1993, on one scale.

Example of Timeline Video16:9 · 66 s

From W3C's A Little History of the World Wide Web.

Built-in styles

Collage

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

Papercut

Layered paper shapes with depth and shadow.

Flat World

Bright flat illustration that zooms from tiny to huge.

Example film from Explainer Video

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