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What the motion engine can do

Every clip below was rendered by Our video engine at 720p portrait, 24 fps. Where a capability has not been rendered yet, you get an empty slot that says so rather than a stock clip.

Brief the studio

The limits, stated

  • 38 seconds per generated shot, at 720p portrait, 24 fps. A motion shot is one clip; longer scenes are cut from several, or held on a still. Hero quality finishes at 1080p portrait.
  • Motion starts from a still we render first. You approve the picture, then it moves — measured keyframe fidelity SSIM 0.912, over six frozen test frames. It is not a text-to-video guess.
  • Speech is generated inside the clip in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and English, checked by transcribing the clips back rather than by ear.
  • What stays still: clocks, dials, gauges, charts, dense text, handwriting. The model repaints them wrong, so scenes whose meaning is in an instrument keep their still image.
  • Motion is rationed to 3 shots a video outside the motion-native formats: at a measured 10.6 seconds of render time per second of video it is the most expensive thing the pipeline draws.
  • Long-form stays on stills. Five to twelve minutes of narration over painted frames, exactly as before — and every board you already own still renders and still opens in the same editor.
  • Delivered at 720p or 1080p, 9:16 or 16:9 by format, with the title, description, tags and captions written. There is no 4K path and no publishing integration.

Motion video is licensed for commercial use.

Speech, in four languages

Generated in-video speech in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and English. The four clips below are the same still and the same sentence, rendered four times. Word error rate was measured by transcribing each clip back: English 0.0, Arabic 0.083, Urdu and Hindi 0.133.

English, spoken in-shot

The same shot and the same line in English. Transcribed back word for word, with no errors.

English8sPortraitSpeechSound designMotion from still

POV, interview and reconstruction

First-person shots, street interviews and reconstructed events, where the camera is a participant rather than an observer.

Historical POV — International · English

One person of their own century, present tense, telling you what the day smelled like.

English7.77sPortraitHero renderPOVSpeechHistory

No one speaks

Wildlife, pets, satisfying process, nature loops, machinery, sport and visual ASMR: music and ambient sound only, no narration and no dialogue. These travel across every market without a word being translated.

Satisfying (visual) — International · English

One deformation, played out and undone, with the last frame matching the first.

English7.76sPortraitHero renderSilentSatisfyingLoop

Formats

One clip per format, made through the site's own worker. The flagged one is the format's preview.

9:16 · 127

Third one today

a mug of tea takes going cold personally for the third time today

English8.16sPortraitMicro absurd sceneMotionPakistan · English

Third floor, then

a delivery parcel decides for itself which neighbour it gets left with

English8.16sPortraitMicro absurd sceneMotionInternational · English

Explain it

a hotel shower demands the guest explain its own control diagram

English8.16sPortraitMicro absurd sceneMotionInternational · English

The Glass

A wine glass half off the edge of a cleared table leans a degree further; it never falls.

English7.76sPortraitCuriosity loopMotionInternational · English

Three Hundred

The first of three hundred dominoes leans a hair from the second; it never falls.

English7.76sPortraitCuriosity loopMotionInternational · English

Ten Metres

Toes curl over the edge of the ten metre platform and the heels rise; the dive never comes.

English7.76sPortraitCuriosity loopMotionInternational · English

Forty Pounds, Chai Extra

Forty pounds, or nobody touches this lawn — the mower quotes its rate on a Birmingham front step

English29.96sPortraitAbsurd sceneMotionPakistan · English

The Boiler Decides

Nobody showers before Abbu. Zain, last — the boiler runs the Bradford household by seniority

English29.96sPortraitAbsurd sceneMotionPakistan · English

Question Four

Question four: why do you want this? — the vending machine is conducting the job interview

English29.96sPortraitAbsurd sceneMotionInternational · English

NINE LIGHTS, NO SUN

nine window lights breaking and re-forming in the rain on a dark pane

English19.36sPortraitAmbient loopMotionInternational · English

ONE BAR, NO SUN

rain on a Bradford terrace window with one orange heater bar burning under the sill

English19.36sPortraitAmbient loopMotionPakistan · English

Nineteen Mills, One Wind

nineteen eighteenth-century drainage mills at Kinderdijk turn on one wind and one canvas sail passes the frame every few seconds

English19.76sPortraitAmbient loopMotionInternational · English

Nine Coils, One Pour

Nine Coils, One Pour — the batter is already spiralling into the oil and the ninth ring has not closed yet

English18.84sPortraitVisual ASMRMotionPakistan · English

Two Thousandths Thick

Two Thousandths Thick — the blade is already buried in the grain and the shaving coming off it is thin enough to read through

English18.84sPortraitVisual ASMRMotionInternational · English

There Is No Gap

They quoted cavity insulation. This wall has no cavity — a Manningham surveyor on the quote that cannot be done

English29.96sPortraitPresenter with cutawaysMotionPakistan · English

The Floor Nobody Lives On

Eleven thousand ground floors, empty. Not abandoned — surrendered — a Venice building surveyor on the floor the city gave up

English29.96sPortraitPresenter with cutawaysMotionInternational · English

The Egg Under the City

Hundred and sixty years old. Nothing has replaced them — a London sewer engineer on the shape that did it

English29.96sPortraitPresenter with cutawaysMotionInternational · English

Twenty Years Dark in the Middle of Bradford

It closed in 2000 and stood empty in the middle of Bradford for twenty years. Nobody would take it on.

English38.6sPortraitBefore / afterStillsPakistan · English

Seoul Tore Down a Motorway to Find a River

For thirty years a river ran in a pipe under a Seoul motorway. Almost nobody knew it was down there.

English34.8sPortraitBefore / afterStillsInternational · English

One Side Wider

a gondola is not symmetrical and never was: the left side is built wider to answer a single oar

English24.88sPortraitCinematic AI videoMotionInternational · English

Born in Birmingham

the balti was invented in Birmingham's Sparkbrook in the 1970s, cooked and served in the same pressed-steel bowl; the city still claims it

English30.16sPortraitCinematic AI videoMotionPakistan · English

Eight Kilometres, No Beach

eight kilometres of sea wall and no beach behind it; in a norte the spray crosses four lanes

English27sPortraitCinematic AI videoMotionInternational · English

No Salt at All

no salt touches this fish for three months; the wind does all of it

English31.88sPortraitCinematic shortMotionInternational · English

Nights Only

twelve hundred spindles that never stopped, and a shift that was only ever offered at night

English38.68sPortraitCinematic shortMotionPakistan · English

Green, Then Blue

the cloth leaves the indigo vat green; the blue is made by the air, not by the dye

English35.28sPortraitCinematic shortMotionInternational · English

Room 412

the peanuts in room 412 are gone and the bill has not been signed

English29.96sPortraitCreature vlogMotionInternational · English

Bin Day Review

twelve bins on the round and number nine is not locked

English29.96sPortraitCreature vlogMotionPakistan · English

Forty Cups

forty cups before nine out of one kettle, which the kettle says is not sustainable

English29.96sPortraitCreature vlogMotionInternational · English

Doctor Lawyer Or Nothing

I did not drop out, Abu. I have been paid for a year.

English35.2sPortraitTwo-voice dialogueStillsPakistan · English

Should AI Video Carry A Label

Nobody labels a lens. You are asking me to label a tool.

English37.9sPortraitTwo-voice dialogueStillsInternational · English

Since Seventy-One

You told the wholesaler on Tuesday. Before me — a Bradford son has given notice on the family shop, and his father remortgaged the house to keep it open

English59sPortraitDrama sceneMotionPakistan · English

Nine Hours, Paid Six

The inspector came at four today. Before service — a restaurant kitchen at close, and the rota has six names that were never on it

English59sPortraitDrama sceneMotionInternational · English

Every Tuesday

Signed the forms Monday. Before you landed — a brother and sister in a night corridor, and only one of them has been visiting

English59sPortraitDrama sceneMotionInternational · English

Bradford Says July. Lahore Says December.

One cousin in Bradford, one in Lahore, and a date nobody has agreed to.

English38.4sPortraitChat storyStillsPakistan · English

Someone Found My Wallet. Then This.

A number I did not know messaged me at ten to nine. It had my wallet.

English34.2sPortraitChat storyStillsInternational · English

One Night a Year

Nobody works there. The looms still run — the story Bradford tells about the mill that closed in 1983

English30.2sPortraitFantasy reconstructionMotionPakistan · English

Only One Turns

Only one figurehead turns by itself — the story a ship's crew told about the carved woman on the bow

English29.4sPortraitFantasy reconstructionMotionInternational · English

Before It Floods

Three days before a flood, the lake rings — the story a drowned valley tells about its church bell

English28.76sPortraitFantasy reconstructionMotionInternational · English

Loom Nine Runs at Ten Past Three

The mill shut in 1983. But every watchman since has written the same line in the same book.

English46.9sPortraitHorror storyStillsPakistan · English

The Line Was Cut in 1998. It Still Rings.

The line into that box was cut in 1998. But it still rings, and nobody knows who for.

English47sPortraitHorror storyStillsInternational · English

Whose Turn Is It

Three weeks. Nobody has moved me — a wheelie bin, a doorbell and the car on the drive are asked whose turn it is in Birmingham

English39.64sPortraitImpossible interviewMotionPakistan · English

Where The Spoons Go

Forty cycles. Nobody has loaded me properly — the dishwasher, a mug and the cutlery drawer are asked where the office spoons go

English39.64sPortraitImpossible interviewMotionInternational · English

Two Kings of Bombay, One Street in Peshawar

Two kings of Bombay cinema were born on one Peshawar street, and nobody ever made the film.

English60.7sPortraitKen Burns documentaryStillsPakistan · English

Sixteen Hundred Years Without Rust

Sixteen hundred years in the open air, and this iron has never rusted.

English47.6sPortraitKen Burns documentaryStillsInternational · English

Home Is Not A Country. It Is A Route

Here they ask where you are really from.

English25.9sPortraitKinetic typographyStillsPakistan · English

You Have Not Been Bored Since 2011

You have not been properly bored since 2011.

English28sPortraitKinetic typographyStillsInternational · English

Five Things Every Auntie's House in Bradford Has

Every Bradford auntie's house has five things, and nobody bought them.

English54.3sPortraitCountdown / listicleStillsPakistan · English

Five Capitals Built From Nothing

Five capitals younger than a century, and one that nobody moved to.

English59.48sPortraitCountdown / listicleStillsInternational · English

Three bays

a business-park goose holds three parking bays and states that nobody parks there before it does

English10.08sPortraitMicro creature vlogMotionInternational · English

Nani's Heer

Nani's story says the Chenab reaches Bradford now: from inside a terraced kitchen as river water climbs the table legs and Ranjha's buffalo pushes through the door

English8.72sPortraitMicro fantasy reconstructionMotionPakistan · English

Seven Winters

the story says seven winters on land, only seven: from inside a wet stone boathouse as the sealskin slides off her shoulders and the fisherman folds it away

English8.68sPortraitMicro fantasy reconstructionMotionInternational · English

The Boot He Left

forty thousand basalt columns on the Antrim coast and one giant's boot still standing among them

English9.36sPortraitMicro fantasy reconstructionMotionInternational · English

Nobody told the gull

a wave freezes mid-break into green glass and one gull is still flying through it

English8.56sPortraitMicro hookMotionInternational · English

Now forty flats

a Bradford mill that held two hundred looms lights up floor by floor as forty flats

English9sPortraitMicro hookMotionPakistan · English

Five Kilometres, Whole

a whole red wooden church rolls down a Kiruna street at walking pace because the mine took the ground under it

English9.68sPortraitMicro hookMotionInternational · English

Slot B4 only

a vending machine is asked about the stuck crisps and names the one slot nobody reads

English10.08sPortraitMicro impossible interviewMotionInternational · English

Actually Thursday

a Bradford wheelie bin is asked about the bin rota and corrects the whole street

English10.08sPortraitMicro impossible interviewMotionPakistan · English

I Know Which Bridges

the grab crane that fishes twelve thousand bicycles a year out of the Amsterdam canals says it knows which bridges they come off

English10.08sPortraitMicro impossible interviewMotionInternational · English

The Leopard's Head

a hand punch bites a leopard's head into a silver spoon at Goldsmiths' Hall and the silver closes back over it

English7.76sPortraitMicro loopMotionInternational · English

One Silver Sheet

one sheet of silver leaf settles onto Bradford barfi and lifts back off

English7.76sPortraitMicro loopMotionPakistan · English

One Wire, One Block

one wire passes through a honey-amber block and the block heals behind it

English8.16sPortraitMicro loopMotionInternational · English

Third floor. She's furious.

an office worker asks who wrote the kitchen sign about your mother not working here and a colleague says she does

English10.08sPortraitMicro sketchMotionInternational · English

Nobody bins a pass

a Bradford father asks who binned the MOT letter and his son says nobody bins a pass

English10.08sPortraitMicro sketchMotionPakistan · English

Behind the plant

an office worker asks who cropped him from the group photo and a colleague says nobody, he was behind the plant

English10.08sPortraitMicro sketchMotionInternational · English

Third mehndi this week

a nine-month-old in a sherwani at his third Luton mehndi this week says nobody asked him

English10.08sPortraitMicro talking babyMotionPakistan · English

Who added me

a nine-month-old in a Bradford front room asks who added him to the shaadi group chat

English10.08sPortraitMicro talking babyMotionPakistan · English

Which nursery interviews a baby

a nine-month-old in a Leeds nursery office asks which nursery interviews a nine-month-old

English10.08sPortraitMicro talking babyMotionPakistan · English

Who parks like this

a nine-month-old in a car seat judges the double parking in a Manchester mosque car park

English10.08sPortraitMicro talking babyMotionPakistan · English

The boiler timer

a nine-month-old at a Birmingham kitchen table complains nobody explained the boiler timer

English10.08sPortraitMicro talking babyMotionPakistan · English

Fourth subscription

a nine-month-old with a remote asks who is watching the fourth streaming subscription

English10.08sPortraitMicro talking babyMotionInternational · English

The MSG Headache Was Never the MSG

Myth: the headache after a Friday takeaway is the MSG. Every kitchen on Oak Lane believes it.

English47.68sPortraitMyth vs factStillsPakistan · English

The Great Wall Is Not Visible From Space

Myth: from orbit, the only human thing you can see is the Great Wall.

English39.8sPortraitMyth vs factStillsInternational · English

Everyone Else Is Shut. We Are Not.

Every shop on this road is shut today. Ours has been open since six, because it always is.

English37.4sPortraitPOV storyStillsPakistan · English

I Am the Only One Here Who Needs the Lights On

The robots do not need light. I am the only reason a third of this building is lit at all.

English40.2sPortraitPOV storyStillsInternational · English

Three Years of Peanuts

Three years of peanuts. Today it paid — the crow on his fire escape left a small brass key on the rail

English34.8sPortraitPOV vlogMotionInternational · English

Two Years

Two years. Nobody knows I pay it — a Bradford son has covered his father's shop rent in secret, and the landlord already told him

English34.8sPortraitPOV vlogMotionPakistan · English

Eleven Months

Eleven months. Nobody has opened that window — she has watered a stranger's balcony from her own for a year, and the flat was empty all along

English34.8sPortraitPOV vlogMotionInternational · English

Column C

English51.24sPortraitPOV vlogMotionPakistan · English

ONE TUBE, THREE BENDS

one clear glass tube takes three bends over a ribbon burner and comes back lit in Rotterdam

English18.84sPortraitProcess shortMotionInternational · English

SIX HUNDRED STITCHES

a Manchester tailor pad-stitches a lapel until it rolls on its own

English18.84sPortraitProcess shortMotionPakistan · English

FIVE SIGNATURES, ONE SPINE

five folded signatures become one sewn spine on a bookbinder's frame in Ghent

English18.84sPortraitProcess shortMotionInternational · English

Your Battery Is Not Old. Three Settings Are Eating It.

A two-year-old battery is not why your phone dies at three. But three settings are.

English39.3sPortraitQuick tipsStillsInternational · English

Why Frozen Curry Always Tastes Flat

Frozen curry tastes flat, and nobody tells you the damage happens before it reaches the freezer.

English37.3sPortraitQuick tipsStillsPakistan · English

Four Habits That Beat The Cabin Bag Scales

Nobody weighs your coat, and that is the whole trick to travelling with hand luggage only.

English38.3sPortraitQuick tipsStillsInternational · English

Karachi ran trams for ninety years, and nobody kept one

Karachi ran trams ninety years. Nobody kept one.

English27.7sPortraitQuiz / guessStillsPakistan · English

The country with the most pyramids is not Egypt

The country with the most pyramids is not Egypt.

English26sPortraitQuiz / guessStillsInternational · English

The Handle Came Off

"Five hundred dead in ten days on one street." — 1854: Snow could not prove the water theory, so he did the one thing that would test it — he had the pump handle removed

English56.84sPortraitReconstructionMotionInternational · English

The Night Shift Nobody Wanted

"Nobody local would work nights." — Bradford's wool mills ran twenty-four hours from 1956 and the shift that filled them came from Mirpur, on a boarding house bed shared three men to a mattress

English59sPortraitReconstructionMotionPakistan · English

Twelve Oh Two

"Six minutes down and the computer says it cannot finish." — 20 July 1969: a 1202 alarm on the lunar descent, and a twenty-six-year-old in a back room had four seconds to say go

English57.24sPortraitReconstructionMotionInternational · English

SIX CUTS, NO CRUMBS

a kinetic sand slab cut into six cubes and pressed whole again

English18.44sPortraitSatisfying loopMotionInternational · English

TWELVE DIAMONDS, ONE CUT

a pistachio barfi slab cut into twelve diamonds in a Manchester kitchen

English18.44sPortraitSatisfying loopMotionPakistan · English

Forty Cubes, One Wave

a Lisbon calceteiro taps forty hand-split limestone cubes into sand one at a time and the wave of the Rossio pavement closes

English18.44sPortraitSatisfying loopMotionInternational · English

ONE TIDE

surf already breaking across cooling black lava south of Reykjavik

English20.76sPortraitScenic shortMotionInternational · English

ONE SQUALL

a rain squall already crossing a gritstone moor above Manchester

English20.76sPortraitScenic shortMotionPakistan · English

ONE RIDGE

fog already pouring over a ridge into an inlet north of Bergen

English20.76sPortraitScenic shortMotionInternational · English

Turned It Off

It only crashes when I save — the helpdesk escalates from the laptop to the national grid

English39.12sPortraitSketch comedyMotionInternational · English

Just a Bit

he had one plate and cannot carry the box, and the auntie has not finished loading him

English39.12sPortraitSketch comedyMotionPakistan · English

Continental

there was cheese on the buffet yesterday and none of it this morning

English39.12sPortraitSketch comedyMotionInternational · English

Britain's Youngest City Is Not London

Britain's youngest city is not London. It is Bradford, and it is not close.

English41.56sPortraitData / stat revealStillsPakistan · English

The Eiffel Tower Is Not One Height

The Eiffel Tower is not one height. In summer it stands about 15 centimetres taller.

English43.7sPortraitData / stat revealStillsInternational · English

Twenty-Eight Weavers and a Shop on Toad Lane

In 1844, twenty-eight weavers put in a pound each. Nobody expected the shop to last.

English60.4sPortraitNarrative storyStillsPakistan · English

She Beat the Men's Record by Two Hours

Only five people had ever swum the Channel. Every one of them was a man.

English54.88sPortraitNarrative storyStillsInternational · English

The Notebook Under The Till On Our Street

The corner shop kept a notebook under the till, and nobody in my family ever once mentioned it.

English35.6sPortraitStory postStillsPakistan · English

The Flat Came With A Letter Nobody Ever Posted

Nobody warned me the flat came with a letter, folded behind the radiator since 1974.

English35.7sPortraitStory postStillsInternational · English

When Did You Stop Feeling Young

"Thirty-one. Not a birthday. A knee." — nobody names the age you expect, and the oldest person asked has not stopped

English38.7sPortraitStreet interviewMotionInternational · English

What Your Parents Think You Do

"They think I'm a pharmacist. I'm not." — a Bradford street outside a mosque car park after Jummah, where four people are living two job titles each

English38.72sPortraitStreet interviewMotionPakistan · English

The Last Thing You Searched

"Last search? I'm not reading that out." — strangers hand over their phones one by one and the funny answers run out fast

English38.72sPortraitStreet interviewMotionInternational · English

Eight Twenty-Two

Eight twenty-two. Nobody has found the shoe — a Birmingham nine-month-old audits the family school run

English29.96sPortraitTalking babyMotionPakistan · English

Forty-One Unread

Forty-one messages. Nobody has said anything — a Manchester nine-month-old reads the family group so you do not have to

English29.96sPortraitTalking babyMotionPakistan · English

The Silver Corolla

Nobody's moving. The silver Corolla again — a nine-month-old runs the Friday car park at a Bradford mosque

English29.96sPortraitTalking babyMotionPakistan · English

Two Teeth and a Nap

Nine months old, and nobody stopped them — a wedding-hall infant on the aunties who asked about her plans

English29.96sPortraitTalking babyMotionPakistan · English

Gate Nine

Gate nine. Nobody has said one word — the only passenger keeping count of a two-hour delay is nine months old

English29.96sPortraitTalking babyMotionInternational · English

Two Hundred Towels, One Card

Not the planet. Four hundred euros a week — an Amsterdam hotel housekeeper on what the towel card is really for

English25.1sPortraitTalking head presenterMotionInternational · English

Nineteen Kitchens, One Drum

Nineteen kitchens on this road. Not one of us makes the base — a Wilmslow Road owner on the drum every curry house buys

English25.1sPortraitTalking head presenterMotionPakistan · English

Nine Bags In, Two Bags Out

Nine bags in today. Two we can sell — a Glasgow charity shop pays two hundred and ten pounds to bin the rest

English25.1sPortraitTalking head presenterMotionInternational · English

The City That Dug Itself a Coastline

Manchester has never had a coastline. For decades it was still Britain's third busiest port.

English51.6sPortraitTimelineStillsPakistan · English

The Cheapest Thing on the Ship Redrew the Map

In 1956, loading a ship by hand cost dollars a ton. One man got it down to cents.

English52.96sPortraitTimelineStillsInternational · English

Your Chai Tastes Flat Because Of The Kettle

Your chai has tasted flat for weeks, and nobody blames the kettle. The scale inside is the reason.

English48.88sPortraitTutorial stepsStillsPakistan · English

Your Knife Is Not Blunt. Its Edge Is Folded Over

Nobody tells you a blunt knife is rarely blunt. The edge is folded over, and ninety seconds straightens it.

English46.56sPortraitTutorial stepsStillsInternational · English

Chai versus coffee: Pakistan drinks more tea than anywhere, and coffee still wins one round

Pakistan imports more tea than any country on earth, and coffee still wins one round, yaar.

English61.1sPortraitVersusStillsPakistan · English

Lion versus tiger: who actually wins

The lion is called king. The tiger is fifty kilos heavier, and nobody told the lion.

English63.3sPortraitVersusStillsInternational · English

Zero Fee Transfers Are Never Actually Zero Fee

The poster said zero fee. The money still landed short in Lahore, and nobody at the counter explained why.

English34.9sPortraitWhiteboard sketchStillsPakistan · English

Why Europe Keeps Its Eggs Out Of The Fridge

A supermarket in Leeds stacks eggs on a warm open shelf. An American shop legally cannot.

English45.7sPortraitWhiteboard sketchStillsInternational · English

THREE STEPS AWAY

a stylised brown hare already pressed flat in its form on the Pennine moor above Bradford

English19.36sPortraitWildlife shortMotionPakistan · English

ONE JUMP, ONE DIVE

a stylised red fox already listening over deep snow, then head first through the crust

English19.36sPortraitWildlife shortMotionInternational · English

Two thousand wedding guests and a loan, or fifty guests and a house deposit

Two thousand guests and a loan, or fifty guests and a house deposit. Same Lahore, only one shaadi. Auntie is counting, yaar.

English44.9sPortraitWould you ratherStillsPakistan · English

Know the date of your death, or the cause

Know the date of your death, or the cause. One envelope on the kitchen table, only one answer, no second opening.

English50.3sPortraitWould you ratherStillsInternational · English

16:9 · 23

Job 302 Ran Sixty Times in Eleven Years and Was Never Billed

The licensing letter says car nine was on Ashton Road at twenty to midnight. My father says he was at the Royal Oldham with my mother. Our own booking sheet says they are both wrong.

English38.52sLandscapeAudio drama (multi-voice)StillsPakistan · English

The Piano Was Stamped 1937. Our Ledger Bought It in 1944.

The serial number inside this piano was stamped in 1937. Our own sales ledger says the workshop bought it in 1944. Nobody in three generations ever wrote down the six years in between.

English42.2sLandscapeAudio drama (multi-voice)StillsInternational · English

The Logbook Entry From a Night He Was Never On Duty

The roster says Ewan MacBride was ashore on the night of 14 November 1979. His own logbook, in his own hand, says he was not.

English33.52sLandscapeAudio drama (multi-voice)StillsInternational · English

His Tally Stick Had Forty Notches More Than His Cows Could Give

One farmer's tally stick came down off the alp in September 1961 with forty more notches on it than his cows could possibly have given. Nobody in the valley accused him out loud.

English31.52sLandscapeNarrated story (voice-first)StillsInternational · English

The Foundry Cast 406 Bells. The Ledger Lists 405.

Between 1946 and 1961 the Kerridge foundry cast four hundred and six bells. The order ledger lists four hundred and five. Nobody ever ordered the last one.

English38.12sLandscapeNarrated story (voice-first)StillsInternational · English

Sixty-Three Cork Oaks Were Painted With a Year That Had Not Happened

Every stripped cork oak in the Alentejo wears the last digit of its year, painted on the trunk in white. In 2011 a surveyor found sixty-three trees carrying a year that had not happened yet.

English44.72sLandscapeNarrated story (voice-first)StillsInternational · English

Prisoner 4859: the man who got himself sent to Auschwitz on purpose

On the nineteenth of September 1940 a man let himself be caught in a Warsaw street round-up. He was not trying to get out of Auschwitz. He was trying to get in, under a false name.

English43.92sLandscapeBiography deep-dive (long)StillsInternational · English

Five Missiles on the Screen, and Fifteen Minutes to Disagree

Just past midnight on the twenty-sixth of September 1983, a screen in a bunker south of Moscow told a duty officer that five American missiles were in the air. Thirty verification stages had already p

English32.72sLandscapeBiography deep-dive (long)StillsInternational · English

The Spy Who Invented 27 People: Garbo and the lie that held Calais

At half past midnight on 9 June 1944, in a back bedroom in north London, a man typed a lie. Because of it, nineteen German divisions stayed exactly where they were.

English36.4sLandscapeBiography deep-dive (long)StillsInternational · English

Every Label Cut Out: the Somerton Man and the words in his fob pocket

Half past six in the morning, the first of December, 1948. Three men on an Adelaide beach find a body already sitting against the seawall, feet crossed — and nobody, for the next seventy-four years, c

English41.8sLandscapeCase file / mystery (long)StillsInternational · English

Two Men, Two Lead Masks, and a Note That Said 18:30

On the afternoon of the twentieth of August 1966 a boy chasing a kite up Vintém Hill above Niterói stopped in the grass. Two men in suits were lying there, and both of them were wearing eye masks cut

English31.92sLandscapeCase file / mystery (long)StillsInternational · English

The Day a Drill Bit Pulled a Whole Lake Down a Hole

Early on the twentieth of November 1980 a drill bit went into the bed of a ten-foot-deep lake in Louisiana and stuck at one thousand two hundred and twenty-eight feet. But nothing on that rig's own ch

English38.52sLandscapeDocumentary deep-dive (long)StillsInternational · English

The Town That Sits on a Fire Nobody Could Put Out

In February 1981 a twelve-year-old boy in Centralia, Pennsylvania felt his grandmother's back garden go soft and then open under him. The hole was four feet across and a hundred and fifty feet deep, a

English34.8sLandscapeDocumentary deep-dive (long)StillsInternational · English

They Drained the Fourth-Largest Lake on Earth. Then Kazakhstan Took a Third of It Back

A ship's hull is standing in a desert in Uzbekistan, ninety kilometres from the nearest water. Nobody moved it, and nobody abandoned it. The sea walked away from underneath it.

English38.52sLandscapeDocumentary deep-dive (long)StillsInternational · English

The Man on the Palace Roof: the king of Balkh who walked out and never went back

A king of Balkh heard footsteps on his own palace roof in the middle of the night. He shouted up at the dark. The man walking about up there said he was looking for a lost camel.

English42.2sLandscapeHeritage / faith story (long)StillsPakistan · English

The Best Job in the World, and the Day His Voice Stopped Working

In the summer of 1095 the most highly paid teacher in Baghdad stood up in front of his class and found that he could not speak. Not nerves. Not illness. His mouth simply would not make the words.

English31.92sLandscapeHeritage / faith story (long)StillsPakistan · English

The Catalogue Alone Ran to Forty-Four Volumes

A caliph in tenth-century Córdoba owned a library whose catalogue ran to forty-four volumes. Not the books. The list of the titles, with nothing else on the page. But within forty years of his death a

English30.6sLandscapeHeritage / faith story (long)StillsInternational · English

There Is No 47a on Hough Street. It Uses Gas Every Night.

Hough Street was built in 1903 and there has never been a 47a. There are forty-one houses on it and none of them is divided. A statement arrives for 47a every month.

English36.4sLandscapeHorror narration (voice-first)StillsPakistan · English

The Van Was Scrapped in 2019. The Chime Still Comes at 1:07.

On Thorpe Rise the chime comes down the ginnel at seven minutes past one on a Sunday morning. But the van that played it was weighed in for scrap in 2019, and the depot has the receipt.

English31.52sLandscapeHorror narration (voice-first)StillsPakistan · English

The Line Was Cut in 2011. It Still Logs Two Minutes Every November.

The copper to kiosk 119 was lifted out of the duct in 2011. But every third of November since, the exchange has logged a two-minute call from it at 21:14, and nobody has ever been in the box.

English31.12sLandscapeHorror narration (voice-first)StillsInternational · English

One Night on the Trans-Siberian: the samovar, the snow, and Baikal at dawn

At the end of every carriage on this train there is a coal-fired samovar. Nobody ever lets it go out. It has been kept alight, in one carriage or another, for most of a hundred years.

English38.52sLandscapeSleep story (long)StillsInternational · English

A Hundred Thousand Wheels, Eight Degrees, and Nobody in a Hurry

Under a nineteenth-century fort in the Jura mountains there are more than a hundred thousand wheels of cheese, lying on spruce boards in stone galleries at eight degrees. Nothing in this building happ

English31.92sLandscapeSleep story (long)StillsInternational · English

Nobody Above the Dyfi Sleeps Through March, and Nobody Hurries

It is half past two in the morning above the Dyfi valley, and nobody in this shed is in a hurry. A hundred and forty ewes are lying in straw, and one pair of hands is moving very slowly between them.

English34.4sLandscapeSleep story (long)StillsInternational · English

Bring the idea; we will shoot it.

Pick a content mode, name your characters, choose the market it is for. The brief takes a couple of minutes.

آپ بتائیں، ویڈیو ہم بنا دیں گے۔