The World’s Smallest Movie
When a movie gets enormous, it typically indicates that it has been converted for a large screen and is an IMAX release. Additionally, on TV, movies occasionally begin with a disclaimer indicating they have been resized to better fit the screen. What would make a movie the smallest in the world, given these factors and others?
A Boy and His Atom is the title of the tiniest movie in the world. It is a stop-motion film that was produced by IBM Research using atom manipulation. The movie must be amplified more than 100,000,000 times in order to watch it.
A stick figure youngster and his single molecule pet or toy are the subjects of a one-minute-long, frame-by-frame story that the team created using carbon monoxide molecules, which have two atoms each. The tiny 12-atom data storage we previously described was developed by the same team that did this.
It is possible to distinguish between the carbon and oxygen atoms in each molecule by seeing how one of them appears as a black sphere and the other as light. On IMDb, viewers only scored the short film a 6.8 out of 10, despite the fact that it showcases great research in data storage and manipulation at the atomic level. It's impossible to win over all naysayers.
- Size: The 60-second movie, “with a frame size of only 45 nanometres by 25 nanometres (45 x 25 billionths of a metre)”, is called A Boy and His Atom.
- Director: Nico Casavecchia