Cinema · 2026

Persistence of Vision

Films & video

130 years of Hollywood in one continuous shot, every image sculpted from glowing dust in a projector's beam.

Built with

Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code)ElevenLabsWhisper

How it was made

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   Step 1: Narration first

   Wrote the narration and recorded it with ElevenLabs. Its timing drives every cut and musical hit.

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   Step 2: A particle renderer

   Claude built a custom renderer of about 2 million glowing particles per frame, with a period film look for each era.

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   Step 3: A team of agents

   A team of Claude agents made the figures, sets, score and sound, and animated the film as one continuous take.

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   Step 4: Frame-by-frame QA

   QA agents polished it frame by frame, and the final render took about 9 minutes.