The Thomas Beale Cipher is the true story of an unsolved code, animated in a gorgeous blend of analaog textures and digtal techniques. The film itself contains 16 hidden messages -- and no one has ...

“The Thomas Beale Cipher,” an award-winning short film, updates a classic animation technique to make paper cutouts move as fluidly as live-action footage. “The Thomas Beale Cipher” tells the “true ...

It has World War II intrigue. An unsolved puzzle hiding a historic fortune. A Rube Goldberg machine escape. And it’s all gorgeously rotoscoped. The Thomas Beale Cipher, a short film by Andrew Allen, ...

(WFXR) — When you look up into the mountains around western Bedford County, you might be looking at $100 million in gold, silver, and jewels, and not even know it. That’s because of a mystery that ...

Known for his editing of poetry anthologies, Paul B. Janeczko studies another form of often-perplexing writing in Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing, illus. by Jenna LaReau.