---
title: "Example: the first barcode ever scanned, in landscape"
description: "An English business-history video made with CLAQON: the first purchase read by a supermarket scanner, in 1974, with AI images and an ElevenLabs voice."
url: https://claqon.com/en/examples/first-barcode-ever-scanned/
language: en
updated: 2026-10-20
alternates:
  es: https://claqon.com/ejemplos/el-primer-codigo-de-barras-en-ingles/
  pt: https://claqon.com/pt/exemplos/o-primeiro-codigo-de-barras-em-ingles/
---

[Video: Video](https://claqon.com/recursos/video/codigo-barras-en.mp4)

AI-generated content

Images generated with AI (supermarket, chewing gum, code, scanner, meeting room, warehouse and archive): they recreate the period and are not photographs of the real events or objects.

Real piece produced with CLAQON

# 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

- [AI images](https://claqon.com/en/features/voice-and-visuals/)
- [ElevenLabs voice](https://claqon.com/en/features/voice-and-visuals/)
- [Animated scenes](https://claqon.com/en/features/animated-scenes/)
- [Captions that follow the voice](https://claqon.com/en/features/captions-and-clips/)
- [Sourced facts](https://claqon.com/en/features/source-verification/)
- [Landscape 16:9](https://claqon.com/en/features/multi-platform-publishing/)

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](https://elevenlabs.io/pricing)
- **Music**: “Ambiant Inconvenient Truth” by Komiku (public domain, CC0 1.0). [See the licence](https://archive.org/details/Komiku-the_binge_watchers)
- **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)](https://fal.ai/models/bytedance/seedream/v5/lite/text-to-image), 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**: - [Smithsonian, National Museum of American History: «Supermarket Scanner» (ID 1994.0180.01)](https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_892778) (read on 2026-10-20)

On your channel

## 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.

1. **Museum record**
   The facts come from the scanner’s record at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
2. **Period images**
   Seven AI-generated images recreate the period; they are not photographs of the events, and the AI notice says so.
3. **The factory’s camera**
   No video clips: the factory’s camera moves over each image.
4. **Cost on record**
   Every paid piece is recorded with its real cost: the production sheet breaks it down.

Pre-registration open

## We make videos like this for your channel

You will start with a 10-video pilot on your topic, with nothing to install. You pay nothing until launch and, if you pre-register, you will get a price below the final price. If you would rather run the factory on your own machine, pre-register for the licence.

[Sign up for the pilot](https://claqon.com/en/done-for-you-videos/) [See all the examples](https://claqon.com/en/examples/)