A stop-motion tourist in Rome gets to travel 2,000 years back in time to see how the ancient Romans built Trajan’s Column. The Column is a tower constructed of 29 huge slabs of marble, with spiral stairs carved out of the inside of each slab. The engineering genius required to assemble such a tower was unprecedented.
This video was created by Hans Weise and Fernando Gomez-Baptista to accompany the National Geographic feature story on the mysterious Trajan’s Column in the April issue. If you’re more interested in the animation, here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how it was made. -Thanks, Marilyn Terrell!
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Why would he want to? He is revered as The One Who Snaps Shots.
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Not by jumping off the top - unless he builds a 47m high springboard on top so he can reach 88mph before hitting the ground.
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He can as soon as there is a place to plug in the time machine.
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Great animation. But does he get back to the future?
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