Short of the Week
Powers of Ten
Directed by Charles Eames, Ray Eames · Starring Philip Morrison · 1977
Beginning with a couple's picnic beside the lake in Chicago, the camera pulls back by a factor of ten every ten seconds toward the edge of the known universe, then journeys back inward.
A legendary, mind-expanding trip through the scale of the universe that still feels astonishing nearly fifty years on.
Journey from a lakeside picnic in Chicago to the furthest reaches of the Universe in this iconic adventure in magnitudes from Charles and Ray Eames
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