National Corn Growers Association · Motion Studies

A Century & a Half of American Corn.

One plant, told in numbers — the history of U.S. corn production from 1860 to 2020, across fourteen decade screens. Below are four motion treatments of the same story. Open any one to experience it.

14 decades/ 1860 → 2020/ 4 treatments/ Best on desktop, full-screen
Scroll becomes a camera
Flagship · Recommended

Cinematic rebuild

Scroll drives a camera moving through a living corn field — organic growth, depth & parallax, rack-focus years, performing numbers, a per-era color grade, and film-reel photos. The most immersive of the set.

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Walk sideways through 160 years
Newest

Horizon — the side-scroll

One continuous field you travel across left to right. The decades arrive as you walk the horizon — a single unbroken landscape from 1860 to 2020, with a film reel running along the floor.

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Numbers that climb
Refined

High-impact polish

The original scrub engine, surgically upgraded — real corn growth, weighty count-ups, no ghosting, added atmosphere and parallax, Ken-Burns photos.

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Baseline

Original build

The first coded scroll experience — the faithful XD layout with count-ups, the per-digit year flip and the film-reel photo advance. The baseline the others build on.

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