# Eight lives — film and sound credits

70 seconds. The first 0.62 seconds are silent, until the opening pen gesture. Archive room air follows. Distant wildlife enters after 7 seconds, withdraws during the Dodo encounter, and returns faintly with the next archive record. The wildlife fades out completely at 55.75 seconds, before the stamp shot begins at 57 seconds. The stamp and final words are carried by quiet room air. The V18 mix adds a quiet original music cue at the Dodo skeleton; there is no voiceover.

## Recordings

All five source pages identify their recordings as **CC0 1.0**. Credits are retained here for provenance and recognition of the recordists.

- **“Tinamu Tao singing in the Amazonian Rainforest” — Félix Blume.** Birds, crickets and distant weather recorded near Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil. Source excerpt: 10–80 seconds, shaped to the revised encounters and final silence. [Recording and source license](https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/408650/).
- **“Zogzog monkey yelling in the Amazonian Rainforest” — Félix Blume.** Recorded near Tauary, close to Tefé. Source excerpt: 34–38 seconds. [Recording and source license](https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/508987/).
- **“Page Turn” — IENBA.** Recorded and performed by students of the Sound Design Workshop, National School of Arts of Uruguay. Short paper sounds follow the ladder withdrawal, Great auk page lift, two card placements and return-to-desk card lift. [Recording and source license](https://freesound.org/people/IENBA/sounds/656546/).
- **“Object_Drawer_Wood_Open.wav” — Nox_Sound.** Wooden drawer opening; used for the distant ladder drawer movement. [Recording and source license](https://freesound.org/people/Nox_Sound/sounds/486081/).

- **“Parrots.wav” — castle81.** Quaker parrot and sun conure calls, excerpt 0.40–3.50 s, heard at 15.08–18.18 s over the Carolina parakeet record. This is a recording of living parrots used evocatively, not an authentic recording of the extinct Carolina parakeet. [Recording and source license](https://freesound.org/people/castle81/sounds/187928/).

[CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

The edit uses the sources' publicly served high-quality MP3 previews. The long field-recording transfers stopped early; their first 90 seconds were successfully decoded into usable local WAV excerpts, and all selected moments lie within those validated excerpts. The short foley previews were downloaded in full. These are not the original uncompressed field-recording masters.

## V17 edit and mix

The forest bed is absent at the opening and from 24.75–26.5 seconds, as the archivist lowers the magnifier at the Dodo skeleton. It returns at a lower level and falls completely away at 55.75 seconds, 1.95 seconds before the audible stamp contact. These Amazonian recordings are evocative memory, not an ecological reconstruction of Mauritius or recordings of extinct calls.

Three original AI-generated foley clips are used, including the fountain pen in the opening action. They were made through the connected Runway workspace on 23 September 2026:

- Fountain-pen checks and sleeve movement: task 08fecc1f-7fcd-4fa1-a73c-f9b9bd856a37.
- Wooden trolley, rolling caster and irregular wheel squeak: task 4fffbe24-e03c-424a-ba99-e85da93e7cf5.
- Rubber-stamp presses on paper and desk: task 0e501302-65bb-4860-8643-a7b41b65fa44. The single press transient is synchronized to the contact; the lift uses a separate soft paper sound. Only the stationary middle of the stamp footage is compressed.

The room air, faint sleeve noise, short reflections and single wooden tray contact are original synthesis. The regularly spaced synthetic footsteps have been removed. Forest, monkeys, paper and drawer are the credited field/foley recordings above. Generated foley is not represented as a CC0 field recording.

See mix-report-v17.json for cue positions and measured loudness, with stamp contact at 57.70 seconds and separation at 59.30 seconds. The second heavy stamp source impact is no longer mislabeled as a release sound. Only the single press transient is used; a very quiet paper separation accompanies the lift. The master is 48 kHz stereo 24-bit WAV; the films use AAC stereo audio.

## Picture edit

The Dodo is identified only over the skeleton scene. The historical Dodo picture inserts and their overlays remain removed. All eight species and adult-only cards are preserved.

Two new close-ups show the archivist placing the Carolina parakeet and Great auk cards into a buff selection folder on his trolley. They connect the inspections to the final eight-card spread. Keyframes were generated with the built-in image tool; gestures were animated through Runway on 24 September 2026. Task IDs: 300796f5-c0dd-4e1c-891b-086fcbd8238a and af42a022-a67f-44ad-bbe5-6ac8f313040c. Prompts and source references are retained in the production folder.

Species encounters range from 3.5 to 5.5 seconds. Skeleton encounters have longer pauses; collecting gestures punctuate the paper records. The stamp shot is 3.75 seconds rather than six: its stationary source interval 2.8–5.8 seconds is condensed to 0.75 seconds, while the press and lift remain at native speed. There is no cut in the stamp impression reveal.

The archive room footage is AI-generated. Dust is a digital composite. Colour and editorial changes do not turn the footage into a filmed historical location.

## Species introductions

Five new close-ups show contemporary illustrated reconstructions in constructed archive records: Moa, Carolina parakeet, Passenger pigeon, Thylacine and Direwolf. These folios and journals are imagined props, not authenticated historical documents. Each uses the corresponding adult Index Naturae card illustration as its reference. The Great auk file and Dodo and mammoth skeleton scenes are retained from the earlier film. AI-generated skeleton imagery is illustrative, not a scientific specimen photograph.

The new desk spread contains eight adult records. No baby cards are shown. Species identification overlays omit the adult / juvenile suffix; the printed adult product cards retain their -A suffix. All eight common names, scientific names and species numbers were checked against the collection registry.

New keyframes were made with the built-in image-generation tool and animated through Runway. The wide and vertical exports have the same 70-second sequence and sound.

## V17 corrections

The Moa book encounter now uses one visible right hand (task c50b276b-69ed-4961-88b7-a1f42140a915). An earlier repair was rejected because a second right hand returned. The Great auk corridor has been emptied of distant people (task a4455b64-ba1d-4e1f-8304-c13b35b7dcfe). Both edits were reviewed across their full selected intervals.

The return-to-desk source starts at 1.75 s, removing the initial upward tray movement. The tray sound is anchored to source 2.5833 s / film 50.8333 s. Paper handling starts at 52.0 s, followed by a softer card-edge lift at 53.0 s. All these gestures run at native speed.

Final wording: “They were here too.” and “Lost But Not Forgotten.”

## V18 — user-selected elegiac mix

The user chose the first generated example, “A small elegy,” a restrained felt-piano and bowed-tone cue. It enters softly at the Dodo skeleton (21.75 seconds), plays at native speed and pitch, and its last tail ends at 48.917 seconds. The sound mix adds only gain, entry/exit fades, subsonic cleanup, and a shallow dip under the Great auk page gesture. It is mixed quietly, with a peak no higher than −24 dBFS. The return to the desk, stamp and final wording have no music.

Music created through the connected Runway workspace on 24 September 2026, task 1d2efe0b-cf90-490e-be34-95e2fbd35f11. The prompt, unedited source and exact mix settings are preserved in the production folder. This generated music is separate from the CC0 field recordings above. A later four-note experiment was not selected.

Every picture packet is identical to V17. The previous sound design retains its original gain and event timing; the new mix adds no bus compression or loudness normalization. The film study page offers both the quiet elegy and the original archive-only sound mix.

## V19 — printed records

The prominent generated card lettering has been replaced with the actual typeset Index Naturae registry artwork. Three moving card faces and all eight cards on the desk use the finished edition-12 graphics, with perspective, paper flex and hand occlusion composited in post-production. The illustrated study pages use deterministic Latin captions, selected field notes and anatomy labels. Exposed background-card strips and the real books’ author names have also been repaired. This is an imagined archive, not a claim to authenticated historical documents.

The Great auk open-file shot lingers on the first 2.17 seconds of its source over the original four-second slot, with gentle interpolation. This omits the distorted record revealed beneath the later page turn. All scene boundaries, the 70-second running time and the two audio mixes remain unchanged. The selected V18 elegy and V17 archive-only AAC streams are copied without re-encoding. Both soundtrack options show the same corrected pictures.