Powers of Ten (film)

The Powers of Ten films 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. The first film A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe was a prototype and was completed in 1968 the second film Powers of Ten A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero was completed in 1977.

This version of the film has a time clock in the corner showing that as one goes into space, they are also going back in time. It was installed in the Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museums Life in the Universe gallery at the time of the museums opening in 1976, until the gallerys closure in 1978.There is also a 1968 National Film Board of Canada film entitled Cosmic Zoom which covers the same subject using animation. It is wordless, using spedup music during the return trips to normal size. ........

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