Powers of Ten
A camera starts one metre above a couple lying in a Chicago park and pulls back by a factor of ten every ten seconds until galaxies are specks — then reverses, all the way down into a hand, a cell, an atom. Nine minutes that permanently changed how people picture scale.
Awards
- Selected for Preservation — National Film Registry, 1998 (Winner)
Credits
- Narrated by: Philip Morrison
- Studio: Eames Office / IBM
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