Cosmic Zoom (1968)
- Directed by
- Eva Szasz
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 12 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 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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Of Stars and Men (1964)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.