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Cosmic Zoom Directed by Eva Szasz Produced by Joe Koenig
Wolf Koenig
Robert VerrallMusic by Pierre F. Brault Distributed by National Film Board of Canada Release date(s) 1968 Running time 8 minutes Country Canada Cosmic Zoom is a 1968 short film directed by Eva Szasz and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It depicts the relative size of everything in the universe in an 8-minute sequence using animation and animation camera shots.
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Synopsis
The film starts with an aerial image of a boy rowing a boat on the Ottawa River. The movement then freezes and view slowly zooms out, revealing more of the landscape all the time. The continuous zoom-out takes the viewer on a journey from Earth, past the Moon , the planets of the Solar System, the Milky Way and out into the far reaches of the known universe. The process is then reversed, and the view zooms back through space to Earth, returning to the boy on the boat. It then zooms in to the back of the boy's hand, where a mosquito is resting. It zooms into the insect's proboscis and on into the microscopic world, concluding at nucleolus level. It then zooms back out to the original view of the boy on the boat.
Inspiration and follow ups
The film was based on the 1957 essay Cosmic View by Kees Boeke. The 1968 short film Powers of Ten (re-released in 1977) used the same idea and techniques, as did the 1996 IMAX film Cosmic Voyage.
See also
- Earth's location in the universe
References
External links
Categories: 1968 films | Canadian documentary films | Films without speech | Short films | Canadian animated films | Short documentary films | Animated documentary films | Documentary films about space | National Film Board of Canada animated shorts | 1960s documentary films | Animated film stubs | Canadian film stubs
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