A Rough Sketch of a Proposed Film Dealing With the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (1968)

Director	Charles and Ray Eames
Producer	Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Distributed by Pyramid Films.
Contributors	Producers, Antti Paatero, Tadus Zilius, and Ted Organ ; research and development, Judith Bronowski
Length	8 min
B&W/Color	color
UO Library Catalog description:	Uses things in the universe to illustrate the meaning of positive and negative powers of ten.
Call #	FILM Ma41
Genre	instructional
Rare	yes
Online	no
Copyright status	public domain
Physical condition	fair
Oregon-related	no

Notes:

A preliminary version of the famous Powers of Ten (1977). It shares the approach of a massive zoom out/zoom in on the universe, but has an “analog” display rather than a subtitle to indicate distance, simpler graphics and a female narrator. The Eames‘ foundation maintains a website where you can see the final film. We also have the Eames’ films House: After Five Years of Living and Toccata forToy Trains. There are two copies of this “sketch” in the library; both are in similar condition (though one jumps in a few moments into the film) and both are simply labelled Powers of Ten.