Documentary & evidence
News and history, from their sources
A news short from a report, with a source tag on every number, or one question from history answered from the records themselves, the real pages on screen.
Film types: 2 · Example films: 4
Full-film skill
News Short
A news short that reads with the sound off, every number with its source.
Built-in styles: Caption News · Data Story · Collage
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Full films
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Describe it in a sentence: your agent makes a 10–20 second film with its own music. When you want the full film, the full-film skill here picks up the same project.
More example films
All 67 example films →Each film was directed, scored and rendered by a coding agent with one of our skills, from a short brief. Turn the sound on.
Vertical, from Ember's European Electricity Review: solar 13% of EU power in 2025, past coal since 2024, then the turn: gas power rose 8%.
Example of News Short9:16 · 48 s
Ember's report and Our World in Data, CC BY; CC0 and CC BY footage from Wikimedia Commons; the channel is a sample.
Square, from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: 73.3 years in 2024, above 2019's 72.6 after COVID; then the 30-year gap the average hides.
Example of News Short1:1 · 39 s
UN estimates via Our World in Data, CC BY; the map from Natural Earth; the channel is a sample.
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.
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.
Questions
Where do the numbers come from?
From the report or the record you give it. The News Short skill puts a source tag on every number on screen, and nothing is extrapolated beyond the source.
Can it tell history from the original records?
Yes. The Investigation Film skill puts the real pages on screen, notebooks, reports and scans, and points at the line that answers the question. A record the archive itself doubts is set aside, and the film says so.
Does it work with the sound off?
News shorts do: big captions carry every sentence, for feeds that play muted.