A Tuscan town gate at dawn, cypresses along a dirt road, the arch open.

una ripresa sola

soglia

A hill town at dawn, in one continuous take. The film is cut three times — and every cut lands in a doorway, so there is no cut at all. Scroll to fly in.

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la strada

Laundry is out before the people are

The street climbs toward the light. Shutters are still shut; the first door you hear is the one you are about to pass through.

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la piazza

Every town keeps its living room outdoors

The fountain got here before you did. Two café tables wait for nobody in particular, which is the whole point of them.

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la bottega

Someone is making a chair the slow way

One back slat fitted, two to go. The camera stops where the work is. How the seam works ↓

come è fatta

Every seam is a doorway

Nothing here was filmed — and nothing was generated. The town is geometry: a gate, a street, a square and a workshop, built from boxes and cones in one scene file, seeded once and rendered offline, frame by frame. The camera path is a single spline through all four places.

The flight is one take. It becomes seven clips for one reason: a browser cannot seek a video it has not loaded, and loading 39 seconds up front would blow the first-view budget. So the take is cut into four scenes and three short connectors — and every cut is placed inside a doorway, where the frame is mostly dark and the camera moves forward. The last frame of each clip and the first frame of the next are the same pixels, by construction: the renderer wrote both from one continuous path. Played in sequence the join is not a transition. It is just the next frame.

Footage: None. One scene file, seeded (1410), no models, no textures, no AI
Render: 936 frames, 24 fps, headless Chrome + Three.js, baked on the repo’s own machine
Clips: 7 — four scenes, three doorways; the seam frame ships in both neighbours
Transport: Native scroll position, mapped — never hijacked. Keyboard and scrollbar stay honest
Autoplay: The film runs itself at its baked 39 s pace — the document really scrolls. Click, wheel or spacebar hands control back
Seek: Clips load as blobs near the viewport only; seeks coalesce behind the decoder
Reduced motion: No video loads at all. The stills cross-dissolve; the town is still there

The technique is the point of the demo: scroll-scrubbed camera flight with frame-locked connectors, kept inside the skill’s budgets. Self-scored in SCORE.md; asset provenance in ledger.json.