Scroll runs the film
A reel · three clips · none of them shot
Nothing here
was filmed.
Every frame on this page came out of a model. That used to be the disclaimer at the bottom of a reel. Here it is the subject, so the prompt, the model, the money and the shipped bytes are printed next to each clip instead of being the part nobody mentions.
You just ran that film with the scroll bar. Three clips, one 18-second file, every frame a keyframe — so the page can land on any of them without waiting. The scroll position is mapped, never hijacked: the page moves exactly as far as you pushed it.
These clips carry no audio track. There is no sound toggle on this page because a control that switches nothing is set dressing, and this page is about not doing that.
The reel
The index plays
Each card is its own 480p cut, not the hero file seeked with
currentTime. Point at one on a desktop and it scrubs to your pointer.
Tap on a phone and it plays inline. Only one ever runs at a time.
The player
Owned, not borrowed
Native controls are a design failure at this tier, and removing them without rebuilding keyboard access is an accessibility failure. So: real buttons, a seekable progress bar, arrow-key seeking, visible focus.
No captions track: there is no speech in any of these clips. A narrated reel
without <track kind="captions"> would fail both accessibility
and the content criterion.
The receipts
What each clip cost, and what it weighs
Generation cost is what OpenRouter billed for that job. Shipped bytes are the files this page actually serves, after the encode.
| Clip | Model | Dur. | Cost | 1080p | 480p | Poster |
|---|
Colophon
Say it plainly
- Footage
- Generated, not filmed. No camera, no location, no crew.
- Model
- ByteDance Seedance 2.0, via OpenRouter
- Audio
- None generated, none shipped
- Encode
- ffmpeg 8.1.2 — SVT-AV1 + H.264 ladder, AVIF posters
- Type
- System stacks only — no webfont, the video is the payload
A reel is the one format where the provenance of the footage is the whole question, so burying it in a footer would have been the dishonest version of this page. Every prompt is reproducible: same model, same text, same seed.
The other two demos in this set take the opposite position — every figure on them is measured from a primary source, nothing invented. This one is the exception, and it is labelled as one rather than quietly blending in.
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