The Thomas Beale Cipher

A great short film from Andrew S Allen tells the dramatized story of the Thomas Beale Cipher, a famous legend that encrypts the location of a huge cache of gold.  The film is part historical, part drama, and simply beautiful to watch.

Using pioneering animation techniques to create a look never seen on film before, this 10-minute award-winning film tells the true legend of history’s most challenging cipher. Professor White, cryptographer extraordinaire, is on the trail of the notoriously uncrackableThomas Beale cipher—a century-old riddle hiding the location of a fortune in gold that has tormented its pursuers since inception. But White is not alone—shadowyforces are tight on his tail.

Watch it below.

The Thomas Beale Cipher from Andrew S Allen on Vimeo.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.