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

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)

Trailer

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