Powers of Ten

1968, The Eames made 'Powers of Ten: A rough sketch for a proposed film dealing with the powers of ten and relative size of the universe.'

The film translates Kees Boeke's book Cosmic View: The Universe in Forty Jumps into a series of continuous zooms, starting with a scene on earth and steadily moving away to the edge of the known universe. The film then moves back into Earth, continuing down to the level of a carbon atom.

...in each ten seconds of travel the imaginary voyager covered ten times the distance that he had traveled in the previous ten seconds.

p. 337, Neuhart, John, Marilyn Neuhart & Ray Eames, Eames Design: The work of the office of Charles and Ray Eames