The first atomic film - The New Spain

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itemprop=”author”> is entitled “A Boy and His atom” and is the shortest film in history. Rather than short, tiny: lasts just sixty seconds, discounted loans and presentation-, and only actors are carbon atoms photographed with a powerful microscope on a copper surface. Photographed and raised 100 million times.

The ‘micro movie “is the work of technology giant IBM, which has already seen fit to inform us that his feat works in the Guinness Book of Records. No wonder: several multinational scientists worked for two weeks, at the rate of eighteen hours a day, to produce an animated film of tiny size, but of great interest.

filming technique, known as “stop motion”, has allowed manipulate the movement of atomic particles so that they could be grouped or ungrouped at will in order to bring to fruition the “argument” of this work minimal.

action less than a minute, could be summarized as: atom known child, child plays with atom, atom goodbye to child to live your life on your own. The child, of course, also made of atoms.

The technical details of ‘A boy and his atom’ indicate the micro movie has a total of 242 frames, instead of running at the rate of twenty per second, as in conventional film, it make only four.

This would not have been possible without the help of the microscope “tunneling”, invented by the very multinational decades and whose design were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 scientists Gerd Binnig (of Germany) and Heinrich Rohrer (Switzerland). Helping the scanning tip of the microscope, the directors of “A Boy and His atom” have attained the particles move at will so they could form figures. Especially the infant’s atom playing with him like a ball, then challenges him to dance and finally, when the atom is joined with others to form a kind of trampoline, test a little afraid and then puts bouncing above it.

The first short atomic has developed an argument like that. But do not blame him its directors, whose intention was not to both entertain and instruct and, above all, let us open-mouthed.

presentation yesterday, the film, IBM wanted to see their work as a way to “fun of sharing atomic scale world” and open the dialogue on the new frontiers of science.