A Movie Made Of Atoms

Name: A Movie Made Of Atoms
Uploaded: 2026-10-27T22:30:06+02:00
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Source: IBM, A Boy and His Atom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0

In 2013, scientists at IBM Research in California made A Boy and His Atom, recognized by Guinness World Records as the smallest stop-motion film. The one-minute film tells the story of a boy named Atom playing with a ball. It was made by moving 65 carbon monoxide molecules across a copper surface with a scanning tunneling microscope, which uses electrical charge to push them into place.

The film has 242 frames, each measuring 45 by 25 nanometres, and each frame took nearly five minutes to scan. The microscope operates at about 5 kelvin, around −268 °C. IBM released the film on April 30, 2013, as a demonstration of what is possible at the atomic scale.
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Comments

@youtube_user_i_guessYouTube

The loop is clean

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@EdiblePersonYouTube

Still better than opm season 3

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@fatnigerian2263YouTube

Somehow has better frames

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@SharmaineVillaruel-c8v8iYouTube

I actually watched the video and its called the bit and its atom and its and its made out of REAL atoms

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@chikuu6YouTube

More frames than the entirety of one frame eventually man🥀

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@AlvaLidbergovicYouTube

Looks so cute and nostalgic, like an old videogame

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@sevenex-7YouTube

Yeah and I'm made of real atoms too

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@rockettg.gYouTube

I think you overestimate our current technology

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@brisklloydavatorYouTube

literally pixel art

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@JosueCasaxvxYouTube

less frames is more money in the bank. Good to hear it's still going even if it fell off. I'll catch up some year

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@JosueCasaxvxYouTube

It's so cool seeing the electron clouds

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@JosueCasaxvxYouTube

@sevenex-7prove it split one rn

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@getutillYouTube

Very impressive they found a way to make the eyes blink and wink. I wonder how they did that

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@gtsugsYouTube

more frames than 7 deadly frames

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@tobiasestrada2404YouTube

Still better than the acolyte

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@ChronicWaneYouTube

You mean didnt enjoy watching manga on tv?

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@blinkmeme1281YouTube

Damn why does everyone hate season 3? It’s so awesome

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@iFEEDYOULEAD_GAMiNGYouTube

I call cap

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@Gu1tarZer0YouTube

@rockettg.g yeah we haven't had electron microscopes for almost 100 years or anything

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@OtukaKinYouTube

we cant see😂😂

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@BogDogs_SwampYouTube

They just remove the "eye atom" altogether for a moment to simulate a blink/

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@777polarisYouTube

bs lmfao

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@plauniYouTube

Что это?

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@Raf-f5yYouTube

Can you play doom on it?

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@LargeInCharge77YouTube

Better than edgerunners season 2

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@iLLDiSSYouTube

"why?"
"because we can!"

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@iLLDiSSYouTube

the computer chips for your "gaming" are made with technology which sounds like defying physics when described. they start to use xray lithography to make chips so small that lightwaves of lasers have too much wavelength and mess up the product.

and you call cap on that? this must be a ragebait comment!

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@ZombBossDoomYouTube

does this also count as the world’s smallest art piece

also the atoms look like metal balls

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@VeltrixMC-s6jYouTube

great question

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@ConnorEnowitchYouTube

Looks fake

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@German1dudeYouTube

another one of those ''i dont believe anything i see because i cant wash my ass and the earth is flat'' mfs

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@luissoulless1976YouTube

It’s officially. Anything is possible. There’s no such thing as impossible anymore

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@nolanarnold3232YouTube

this is so cool

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@GreenqrukYouTube

Aww a *little boy and his little atom*

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@cientistadanasaYouTube

Em 2013, cientistas da IBM criaram o menor filme do mundo movendo 65 moléculas de monóxido de carbono sobre cobre. Ele possui 242 quadros.

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@AdamNewman-c4lYouTube

What are the molecules sitting on??

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@AMX50_SurbaisséYouTube

I watched this in class

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@tuff_boi_EYouTube

better then dandys world

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@ArbeeyieYouTube

Better than helluva boss and hazbin hotel imo

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@tshidisomoiloa8164YouTube

The start of molecular gaming

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@SaturnOfficialPlanetYouTube

mf thinks we were still cavemen in 2013

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@SaturnOfficialPlanetYouTube

“Only things that I can see exist!!” Typa person

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@Spooderman-t4uYouTube

Ladies and gentlemen I give you gta6

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@yoskarmurillo6758YouTube

You’re not verified.

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@ijustbevibin0425YouTube

Crazy the same people that hated on one punch man watched invincible lmao same level of animation if anything one punch man is better animation even with the downgrade

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@MarioMastarYouTube

Knowing modern computing, if you can detect and maintain 2 states, you can make Doom on atoms.

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@CeaselessJollityOstYouTube

More frames than opm season 3

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@mjawadsiddiquiYouTube

it littrally says on copper

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@GriffinGYouTube

ok yeah whatever can it run doom

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@lanevincecruzleones6983YouTube

Name of the movie : the boy and his atom

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@ploco24YouTube

Safe frame as what my PC usually got

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@AdamNewman-c4lYouTube

@mjawadsiddiquidoes copper have smaller molecules? That is what I did not get man.

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@NakamuraRenkunYouTube

Now.. Bad Apple or Doom, which goes first?

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@xyseaytYouTube

better than invincible

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@ubeia4857YouTube

Between this and Seven Deadly Frames or PNG Lock, I would take this.

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@SoniaDiBlasi-f8uYouTube

Remember to follow God and Jesus our savior amen

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@MasonLocks-z3jYouTube

So i can go skydiving with no parachute and dive head first into solid cement and survive without a scratch?

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@luissoulless1976YouTube

@MasonLocks-z3jI never said you couldn’t

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@AnemoicAxolotlYouTube

Wolfenstein 3D

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@ZaynLucas17YouTube

Name of movie is a boy and his atom

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@abdullaalzaabi6159YouTube

Better than ai slop

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@professional_turkYouTube

Genuinely a better movie than lesbian space princess 🥀✌️

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@A_Certain_Sinclair-Sinner11YouTube

Now make a Bad Apple variant of this

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@miranalkan7989YouTube

Japan's are bit fury to you

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@larpstoneninja6382YouTube

btw the movie is called "a boy and his atom"

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@ksenijapavlovic2052YouTube

@AnemoicAxolotl **That’s not an option.**

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@AnemoicAxolotlYouTube

@ksenijapavlovic2052 well it's better than doom and underrated it's the first shooter game of its kind doom came after it and is made but the same people they're both similar but in Wolfenstein 3D you kill n@zis and h1tler

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@lidacambodia7048YouTube

Better than LSP

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@jeffdolled8054YouTube

Carbon MONOXIDE

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@Skizz0orYouTube

Now I know what you thinkin. Do not send this to aliens. They'll beam us up, and will teleport there looking like that thinking that's how we look. On Google bruh.

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@RakhiKumari-bl2edYouTube

AND WERE STILL PAYING NETFLIX

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@7_Crystal-15YouTube

Scientists should play doom using carbon monoxide atoms

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@bendy.fan.8875YouTube

How is it even classified as Movie?

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@sheelaajoy2067YouTube

"Worlds smallest" I THINK U BORED MY THERAPIST

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@Rayan23459YouTube

Molecule*

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@MeMetoo_1YouTube

Nice way to waste funding 😂

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@icecoldorangesYouTube

See, why?

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@chuchi6678YouTube

Fun fact: IBM was also the first to arrange atoms on a flat surface back in 1989. They arranged them to spell out “IBM”

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@DFG_Shadow1YouTube

What is this I know I’m not a genius but everything is made out of atoms so this means any movie even new ones

Also it’s more like pong then anything

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