Watch: The World’s Smallest Movie ‘A Boy and His Atom’

Yesterday, IBM released a short film titled A Boy and His Atom, which landed it a Guinness World Record for being the smallest stop motion film ever, by manipulating atoms to tell a story.  The atoms were magnified at 100 million times so we can see them.

If this concept sounds mind-blowing, hit the jump to watch the short as well as the making of to see how crazy this really is.  Science!

 Source: IBM via Collider

Using the smallest object known for engineering data storage – atoms – IBM scientists shrunk the big screen down to the atomic level and created “The World’s Smallest Movie: A Boy and His Atom.” The tiny Guinness World Record certified movie is comprised of almost 250 stop-motion frames that were combined into an animated film. To help bring this world of atoms to life, the scientists used their scanning tunneling microscope, a unique two-ton microscope that operates at -268 degrees Celsius to tell a short story of a boy (who’s made of atoms) playing with an individual atom. You can check out IBM’s movie, behind-the-scenes footage, video diaries and atomic shorts on different technical aspects of the movie here: youtube.com/madewithatoms