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Who Invented English?

How the language billions speak was born, told in under three minutes with animated maps, timelines and archive images.

Thumbnail of the documentary Who Invented English?

The full video is on our YouTube channel.

Client
Hivo Studio channel
Format
YouTube documentaries
Length
2 min 55 s
Package
Starter

The brief

Explain where English came from to a curious audience in under three minutes, without losing anyone in dates and names.

What we made

A fact-checked script, a deep documentary narration and 40 animated scenes: maps that show where the language travelled, a running timeline of its turning points, and archive images such as Shakespeare’s Chandos portrait. 106 sound cues tie every move to the narration.

Script and fact-checkAI narrationAnimated mapsTimelinesArchive imagesSound designCaptionsThumbnail