Powers of Ten (1968)
- Directed by
- Ray Eames, Charles Eames
- Genre
- documentary film, popular science film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rating
- 7.7 of 10 from 82 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This short film uses a camera to zoom out from a sleeping man in a park to the edge of the known universe and then zoom back in to the level of a single atom. It shows how big and small things are by changing the view by a factor of ten every ten seconds.
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What happens
The Powers of Ten are two short American documentary films written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames. Both works depict the relative scale of the universe according to an order of magnitude (or logarithmic scale) based on a factor of ten, first expanding out from the Earth until the entire universe is surveyed, then reducing inward until a single atom and its quarks are observed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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