Free guide · Sep 25, 2026

How Claude wrote a whole film in code

A scene-by-scene breakdown of the AI-written film, and how to make your own with HyperFrames.

The short version

This is not a video model. Claude Code writes an HTML file with GSAP animations on a paused timeline, then a command-line tool called HyperFrames opens that file in headless Chrome, seeks it frame by frame, and stitches the frames into an MP4 with ffmpeg. No Sora, no Runway, no Veo anywhere in the pipeline.

We used it to build a silent 64-second vertical film, the history of AI from 1950 to 2026, on a Windows 11 machine. Claude wrote over 5,000 lines of HTML and JavaScript across 12 scenes, and the final render took about 2.5 minutes. The exact prompt we used is below, so you can swap in your own topic and run the same thing tonight.

What's in the full guide

  1. 01Where this came from
  2. 021. Install the HyperFrames skill
  3. 032. Give Claude the exact brief
  4. 043. Look at the snapshots before you render
  5. 054. Render it
  6. 065. No install, just testing an idea
  7. 07Tips for your own film
  8. 08Links

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