Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. An adaptation of the Charles and Ray Eames classic 1968 documentary by the same name, Powers of Ten: A Flipbook, is an ocular journey dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others. 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.
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 at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Now the Eames Office, Pyramid Media and DATT Japan have produced a CD-ROM called Powers of Ten Interactive, dedicated to expanding on the ideas of the husband-wife design team of Charles and. A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison.
Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. An earlier version dates back to 1968, the same year as a very similar National Film Board Of Canada animated film, Cosmic Zoom. His Powers of Ten soundtrack, though, features ‘spacey’ electronic sounds. The short documentary Powers of Ten was created by the American designers, Charles Eames and Ray Eames and examines the colossal size differences found when. The classic documentary film by mid-century modern masters Ray and Charles Eames, Powers of Ten, features an electronic soundtrack by composer Elmer Bernstein.īernstein is best known for his orchestral soundtracks to films like The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven and True Grit.
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