AI history shorts generator

• Flat worldSomeone did something strange that made sense in the end

  Flat cartoon people act it out in a lit 3D world built for its place and era: the doubters, the turn and the real reason.

• Object LessonOne object, food or material with a surprising past

  The thing is the lead and nobody is drawn: photo-style pictures follow it through its history, one fact at a time.

• StickmanHow something unfolded over years, with maps and dates

  Stick figures, maps and dates on plain paper carry a timeline.

• ExplainerHow something began, explained

  Charts, icons and moving type, with History picked so it tells how something began.

• 3D BuildHow a famous structure was built

  The structure goes up part by part in a 3D cutaway, each part named as it goes in.

1. 1Type the story in a sentence, such as the fake army that fooled generals with balloons, or pick one ViewGum suggests.
2. 2Pick Flat world for a story about people or Object Lesson for the story of one thing, and a length from 45 to 90 seconds.
3. 3Check the price in credits, then start it. ViewGum writes the script, checks each fact, builds the places, narrates it and renders the short.
4. 4Watch it and open Facts and sources: every claim that survived the check, with its source.
5. 5Export one MP4 with post copy for each app and post it yourself.

• The morning Sweden swapped sides

  Flat world, 42 seconds, made November 7, 2026

  A country votes to stay on the left, switches anyway, and the crashes go down. Open its facts for every claim the check kept, with its source.

  Typed: “Dagen H: September 3, 1967, Sweden switches overnight from driving on the left to the right. Funny true history.”

  Make one like this
  Facts and sources (11)

  • On 3 September 1967, Sweden switched from driving on the left side of the road to driving on the right, a day called Dagen H.Swedish Transport Administration history; Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • At 4:50 in the morning, vehicles on the road stopped, moved over to the right side, and set off again at 5:00.Swedish Transport Administration history of Dagen H
  • Sweden's neighbors Norway, Finland and Denmark already drove on the right.Standard histories of European road traffic rules
  • Most cars in Sweden at the time had the steering wheel on the left.Swedish Transport Administration history of Dagen H
  • In a 1955 referendum, about 83 percent of Swedish voters chose to keep driving on the left.Swedish referendum records, 1955
  • In 1963, 8 years after the referendum, the Swedish parliament decided to switch to driving on the right anyway.Swedish parliament (Riksdag) records
  • Thousands of new road signs were put up ahead of the switch and kept covered until the change.Swedish Transport Administration history of Dagen H
  • About 8,000 buses were modified or replaced so their doors would open on the right side.Swedish Transport Administration history of Dagen H
  • Most private traffic was banned from the roads during the hours around the switch.Swedish Transport Administration history of Dagen H
  • Traffic accidents in Sweden went down in the months after the switch instead of up.Swedish road safety statistics; Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • The drop in accidents is commonly attributed to drivers being extra careful on the unfamiliar side, and the effect faded within a couple of years.Swedish road safety research on Dagen H

After the script is written, a second pass checks every claim and keeps it, corrects it or drops it. A real person is never drawn as a likeness and never given words they did not say. The Facts and sources panel beside the short lists each claim that is left with its source, so you can check them before you post. A check lowers the risk of a wrong claim; it does not remove it.

A story with one person or group at its centre, a record a standard reference documents, and a reason that changes what it all meant. These are the stories ViewGum suggests for Flat world:

• The con man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice
• The marathon winner who rode most of the way
• How emus beat the Australian army
• The town that could not stop dancing
• The bank lock even the manager could not open
• The chess machine that beat almost everyone
• The snake bounty that made more snakes
• The fake army that fooled generals with balloons

• No archive footage, photos of real people or real likenesses: people are drawn, and things are shown in made pictures.
• No long-form video: a history short runs 45 to 90 seconds.
• No forum post read over gameplay footage. Each short is animated for its own story.
• It does not post for you. You get the MP4 and post copy for each app, then post it yourself.
• It does not cut clips from long recordings.
• It does not export horizontal or square video.
• It does not have a public REST API. AI assistants connect through its MCP server.