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Cosmic Zoom (1968)

Cosmic Zoom poster
Directed by
Eva Szasz
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
8 min
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This 8-minute animated film takes you on a journey through scales of size. It starts with a boy in a boat and zooms out to the edge of the known universe then zooms back in to the microscopic world.

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What happens

Cosmic Zoom is a 1968 short film directed by Robert Verrall and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It depicts the relative size of everything in the universe in an 8-minute sequence using animation and animation camera shots. All drawings by Eva Szasz. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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