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History in English: the first barcode ever scanned
A landscape English video about the first purchase read by a supermarket scanner, on June 26, 1974 in Troy, Ohio, following the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, with AI-generated images and the ElevenLabs voice George.
- Length
- 0:58
- Language
- English
- Format
- Landscape video 16:9 (1280 × 720)
Capabilities shown
What it shows: the landscape format for YouTube with seven AI-generated images that recreate the period, with no clips: the factory’s camera moves over each image. The images are not photographs of the real events or objects, and the AI notice says so. The facts come from the scanner’s record at the Smithsonian (object number 1994.0180.01).
How it was made
Production sheet
Everything you hear and see in this piece is cleared for commercial use. This is how the factory engine produced it.
- Scenes
- 7 code-animated scenes over the video, with titles and captions that follow the voice. The score passed the engine’s quality gate.
- Voice
- ElevenLabs, the “George” voice from its default library (Multilingual v2 model), with commercial use included in the paid plan. See the licence
- Music
- “Ambiant Inconvenient Truth” by Komiku (public domain, CC0 1.0). See the licence
- Sound effects
- 4 effects synthesised by the engine itself, with no third-party recordings.
- Picture
- Images generated with AI using Seedream 5 Lite (fal.ai), with commercial use according to each model’s page.
- Provider cost
- 0.34 USD of real cost in paid services, recorded piece by piece: voice 0.09 USD · images 0.25 USD. Including the pieces paid for and discarded while making it, the topic cost 0.37 USD.
- Content sources
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How the factory makes a video like this
This sample was made with the CLAQON factory: an ElevenLabs voice, AI-generated images with the factory’s camera movement and the scenes layer on top. On your account, your AI model writes the script from sources and it passes the HARD QC before anything is spent on voice or images.
Museum record
The facts come from the scanner’s record at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Period images
Seven AI-generated images recreate the period; they are not photographs of the events, and the AI notice says so.
The factory’s camera
No video clips: the factory’s camera moves over each image.
Cost on record
Every paid piece is recorded with its real cost: the production sheet breaks it down.
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