The video below holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest stop motion film. It came to fruition as part of IBM's research into atomic memory, and can only be viewed when magnified 100 million times - on an equivalent scale, that would be similar to magnifying an orange to the size of Earth.
The film was created using a remotely operated 2 ton tunnelling microscope in IBM's labs at San Jose, California. In order to keep the atoms still for maximum control, the microscope operates at -268 degrees celsius or -450 fahrenheit. The dots that can be seen in the movie are oxygen atoms, which consists of 242 still images making up the film's 242 frame. The intricate process behind the making of the movie can be seen further in the following video:
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