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One Small Crawl

Animated short film built for the IBC Accelerator 2026 showcase, as a proof-of-concept video inside the FRAMES project (frames). Production id IBC2026-SNAIL-001, working title One Small Crawl. Hybrid production: authentic archival footage retrieved via the ARC pipeline plus AI-generated character animation, VFX, era-style enhancement, and sound design. NOT fully AI-generated - provenance of each layer is tracked.

Key facts

  • format: animated_short; genre animation/drama
  • runtime_target: 5-8 minutes; delivery 4K UHD (ACES AP1 working, Rec2020)
  • scene_count: 5 - one era of film/video history per scene
  • logline: a snail (snail) walks the full length of route-66 from Chicago to Santa Monica across decades of American media history
  • characters: CHAR-001 Snail (protagonist, minimal dialogue - 4 short lines, quiet, private, awed); CHAR-002 Voice From TV (NASA “the Eagle has landed”, archival audio, clearance to verify)
  • product_placement: Nutella jar floating zero-g in lunar orbit capsule (sc04), no dialogue; clearance PENDING
  • delivery: IBC Accelerator 2026 showcase + festival circuit

Scenes (era arc)

  • sc01 “The Road Begins” - 1926-window Chicago, silent film (sf)
  • sc02 “Dust and Motion” - era-locked-look Dust Bowl, sound newsreel (snd), Ariston Cafe Litchfield IL
  • sc03 “The World Turns to Color” - July 20 1969 (Apollo 11 landing day), Kodachrome pivot, U-Drop Inn Shamrock TX (kch)
  • sc04 “Somebody’s Tape” - mid-1980s AZ-CA desert, consumer VHS (vhs), incl. lunar capsule + Nutella zero-g shots (sp/hd sub-eras)
  • sc05 “Arrival” - 2020s Santa Monica, modern digital (dig), golden hour

The same 5-scene structure is tracked in the local kitsu instance as sequences sc01-sc05 (sc01 … sc05), each broken into shots (sc01_0010 … sc05_0060, 50 records, 18 canceled). kitsu sequence titles differ from the scene names above (e.g. sc01 “The Route 66 Sign”). Each shot page is enriched with the movielabs OMC export JSON: generation brief v0.3.0 (50/50 shots), shot list v0.2.0 revised with AGT-020 fallback, and the per-shot OMC sidecar (34/50) recording model, seed, era, and deliverable stem.

Timeline

  • 2026-05-16: bible v1 effective; script v2 draft date
  • 2026-06-07: shot list produced by AGT-020
  • 2026-06-28: script draft v2.2.0
  • 2026-07-04/05: era look guide research-locked; resolve era stacks built
  • 2026-09-02: MovieLabs OMC export received and ingested into this wiki

Relationship to archive assets on disk

  • The film reuses archive home-movie and news footage (archive-footage-reuse): “Our Trip of U.S.A. Part Two” (6403-our-trip-of-usa) and RAI news records (Route 66 + Artemis II, see artemis-ii-tg3-news).
  • The “one small crawl” pun plays on “one small step” - a snail’s crawl vs spaceflight (artemis-ii theme in the TV voice and capsule scenes). Confirmed by the script and era guide, not just inferred.

Pipeline

Open questions

  • Exact runtime vs 5-8 min target.
  • Which RAI archive items made the cut (Route 66 docs, Artemis II, Harley, Kilimangiaro, TG specials are all candidates in the export).
  • Nutella clearance status.