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Glenys Hanson on 11 Feb 11Using 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 uncrackable Thomas 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-shadowy forces are tight on his tail. Closeup The film contains 16 hidden messages that hold clues to the characters' secrets. Eight are fairly easy and require only a close eye. Six are moderately difficult using various encryption methods. Two are extremely difficult and will require a genius mind to decrypt.