Signal Delay. A mission in logs.
The 62-second opening of a documentary on Voyager 1, with narration, diagrams and subtitles.
Press play and turn the sound on in the player. It also goes full screen.
The whole documentary runs 6 min 55 s and is not published here. That is longer than today’s five-minute limit for a standard film, and the player holds only the opening.
The film.
A documentary told as five months of mission logs. On November 14, 2023, Voyager 1 started repeating one pattern of ones and zeros, and every question cost forty-five hours of light-time. One narrator walks through the readout, the dead chip and the code moved by hand in 1970s assembly.
The player has the opening, 0:00–1:02, up to the title. Turn the sound on for the narration; the subtitles are part of this excerpt.
What sits on the frame was decided by this film’s treatment: photographic stills with a slow push-in, hand-drawn amber diagrams, terminal windows, dates on black, two clocks in the corner, 35 mm grain, a 2.39:1 frame, a quiet music bed and subtitles. These were chosen for this documentary and do not come as standard with every Kleo film. For a new film, ask your assistant which narration, music and subtitle options you can have before you approve the render.
- FilmSignal Delay, a documentary, 6 min 55 s in full
- On this pageThe opening, 0:00–1:02, up to the title; the full film is not on the site
- LookRendered with Kleo’s realistic look
- NarrationOne narrator
- Master4K at 60 fps in a 16:9 file, with the picture letterboxed to 2.39:1. This page shows a 1080p 60 fps copy.
What it shows.
A narrated documentary opening: one voice carrying the story from the first log entry to the title, over a frame built for this film. Kleo makes a narrated film in two looks, realistic and animation, and an animatic of the same storyboard; this is a film in the realistic look.
One narrator
One voice takes us through the readout, the dead chip and the code moved by hand in 1970s assembly. A film of your own can be narrated in English or Italian.
A frame decided by the treatment
The dates on black, the amber diagrams, the terminal windows, the two clocks and the subtitles were asked for by this documentary’s treatment and belong to it. Check what is available for your own order.
4K 60 fps master, shown at 1080p
The master runs at 4K and 60 frames per second, and this page shows it at 1080p and 60 fps. The player lets you listen, pause or go full screen.
At 6 min 55 s the full documentary runs longer than the films Kleo makes for you through your assistant, which go from 15 seconds to 5 minutes; the look, the single narrator and the 4K 60 fps master are the same.
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Make your own.
Connect Kleo to the assistant you already use and ask for a narrated film: the subject, the length, the format and the look, realistic or animation. Kleo asks for whatever is missing, returns the treatment, then states the exact credits before the render starts; nothing is charged until the job is accepted. The finished MP4 arrives as a link that stays good for 7 days.
“Use Kleo to make a 2-minute narrated film about the day Voyager 1 started repeating one pattern of ones and zeros. Realistic look, English narration, 16:9. Show me the treatment and the credit cost before starting the render.”
A 2-minute film is 80 credits, and a film is made only for accounts that have bought a pack; a 60-second animatic of the same storyboard is 10 credits, for every account. The animation look, a 2D animated film on the same workflow, costs the same per second; see the earlier octopus Short.