June 4, 1977
Release Date

Powers of Ten (1977)

Name: Powers of Ten
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Released: 1977-06-04

Running Time

June 4, 1977
Release Date

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Plot.

A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of the one before. Starting from a view of the entire known universe, the camera gradually zooms in until we are viewing the subatomic particles on a man's hand.

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Cast & Crew.

Philip Morrison

Narrator (voice)

Charles Eames

Director

Ray Eames

Director

Alex Funke

Cinematography

Elmer Bernstein

Music

Media.

Details.

Release Date
June 4, 1977

Status
Released

Running Time
9m

Genres
Documentary Animation

Last updated: 2024-09-28

This Movie Is About.

educational

dna

cell

cosmic zoom

short

milky way

zoom in

Wiki.

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.