Powers of Ten™ (1977)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. 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. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. POWERS OF TEN © 1977 EAMES OFFICE LLC (Available at www.eamesoffice.com)
the fact that this wasmade in 1977 blows my mind, imagine what could be done with today's technology, someone should make a new version of this!
indeed
nukemonk more zoom in and out, better quality i dont know
+weloca Harald Lesch is my Favorite Professor :D (im german btw)
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Meiner auch :D
+Marty McFly Watch Morgan freeman's talk on the cosmos. Talks about this, quite amazing!
I was working at Pyramid Films in 1977. Everybody who screened this nine minute film agreed it would become a classic. And so it has.....
This film was actually a remake. The original was in 1968
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TOTAL Classic
After reading it was nine minutes long I checked - didn’t feel like nine minutes. Felt like three. Absolutely incredible presentation. Hard to believe it was made in 1977.
How old are you now sir 😅
@@djmips Wow, I never knew there was a previous version. Thanks.
My mom, Wendy Vanguard, is the artist who painted all of the close up frames of skin cells, etc :) She has the coolest stories working directly with Ray Eames.
Awesome!
Cool!
a big thank you to her!
It would be very interesting to hear these stories.
your mom is so cool
I first watched this movie in 1980 when I was 8 years old and in 3rd grade, then several times in the school years that followed, then again today. I always looked forward to watching this film, and was excited when the teachers fired up the projector and announced that it would be shown. If I hadn't been shown this film, I likely would have chosen a different path for my life. Thank you to the producers of this film!
Wow...!
Agreed. I feel it also changed and is still changing my life
What a great comment
I also first saw this in 1980. But I was 20. It blew my mind. It's probably the reason I have an observatory in my back yard and take photos of space with my telescopes.
A science teacher showed us this in high school in probably 2002. I have dealt with an obscene amount of negative experiences in life and this video ALWAYS makes me feel better instantly. I wish I could thank whoever decided to produce this video giving the science a visual representation.
I wish I had seen it in high school in 2002! It's a fantastic meditation for people who "can't do meditation"! A good exercise in healthy detachment. This is definitely a science video, but I see the spirituality in everything and this pretty much solidifies a lot of what I be talking about in a quick non-preachy visual.
You are not alone.
Happy for you that this helps you feel better! It is an amazingly powerful and yet beautiful film indeed. Hope that things improve in your life!
Very interesting. Never thought it had a spiritual angle but you know it dies out things in perspective. We and our problems are very small compared to this universe, yet they seem so big.
I love the fact that the guy who wrote the music for this also scored "Airplane!" and "Animal House".
Hey Lev, cool seeing you here.
@@harrisonspiteri8729 Hey Yax. Yeah, I really love this film.
The spooky music was a proxy for everything I don't understand that scares me (ie. math), Tales of Mere Existence. Those Eames were visionaries of reality. Airplane and Animal House were scored by two different musicians.
No way! Who woulda thought!
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When I was a little kid they showed this on loop at my local science museum. I was absolutely glued to it; I still think it's one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen.
Me too!
National Air and Space museum?
@@spencermack9023 California Academy of Sciences.
I first saw this at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley.
Me too
@@D.A.99740 Looks like we have the same childhood!
This is so much cooler than powers of one.
best anime
@Neil Verma It's neither jojo nor anime.
It's orders of magnitude better.
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Funny thing, there was an episode of Star Trek, the original series, where Scotty sets up a device to amplify sounds, and he announces that the thing has an amplification factor of 1 to the 10th power or something.
The 1970's feels like a time when such respect and appreciation of art was considered... creating a viewable piece of art was a privilege and honor, it shows in these older films... It was never a way to make a quick living but rather a way to showcase skill and ability
Not to mention a properly-funded public education.
I think it's more like, they had more time to do it right and think about what they were doing, because the tools they had to use made it take a lot longer, and they also had a lot less competition for doing it, so they had a lot more motivation to do it well too, and THAT'S why the finished product is so much classier.
Social media has made everyone too self-conscious, pressured to make content and keep subscribers happy.
We lost 40 powers of quality and style since then :)
scepticalchymist how are we not just lines?????
My dad is a philosophy nerd and spoke to me about the world with wonder in his voice. He showed me this video, as well as many other classics, before the age of 7. Now I am watching it for class as a 22-year-old. Funny how many things dad showed me when I was young that my college professors require their students to watch now.
I DID THE SAME WITH MY SONS. THIS IS REALLY A SPARK FOR THE SPIRIT.
May I ask you what are the others classics please ?
@@antoinedujardin this is one of the best, but if you google powers of ten videos you will have a choice. i saw my 1st in the wonderful metaphysical year of 2012. it also started in Chicago but was a little better.
There is a cool one about ATP synthesis where all of the parts of the cell are anamated with awesome CG. If I had seen that in high school ( missed it by 10 years) I would have been in chemistry right now.
I’m watching this for class right now but I might just have to rewatch in a different state of mind
exactly what i was thinking lol
on god
Same lol
Blaze it my dudes
me too
As my AP Physics teacher once said: "Don't do drugs, do physics."
Enough of either amounts to a similar experience.
This video made me think of all the times I've heard people say their trips have made them aware of these patterns
Fuck that. Weed is great.
Absolutely true
I'm literally stoned while watching this.
This helps put everything into perspective. Next time I get upset over something or react negatively to someone's affront, I will remember this video and get a proper perspective. That ought to do it......
One of my teachers in India used to respond to a person's woes by sitting on the floor while looking at a poster of the night sky, showing galaxies and distant stars. He would point his finger to some little point on the poster and say, "We are right about here." Then after a minute or two he would ask that person, "Now do you have any other problems?"
love it
"Ten and forty zeros!"
Wait,how'd this guy in 1977 know my student loan balance?
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Wee&wii
Werty
Curious indeed
Why would you rack up a debt that you can't discharge and you can never pay off? It would have been far better for you to have gotten a mcjob after high school. Granted I wasted 5 years in college too, but at least I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't dirt cheap at a state school.
One and forty zeros
Great piece of education.They should do a 2017 version. Since 1977 new discoveries of subatomic particles have been made.
Not only is it complete madness, it has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Numitron I removed that guys comment. I couldn't make sense of it.
Sam ...so...something you dont understand you destroy...You sound like you were trained as an indoctrinated corporate statist in America...Am i getting warm?
+getredytagetredy No, I'm into the energy business. Look, I'm also a anti-globalist. Also, this subject is irrelevant.
Sam ...Ill close the door gently then...
I remember watching this film as a kid. I never forgot it! So impressive still today!
Who else watch this for a school assignment in 2020
#Onlineschool
@@HurricaneJahya yeh
you
@@da4el334 well duh
Me I’m in a quarantine assignment right now
I first saw this as a film student in the early '90's. I've never seen space explained so logically or elegantly. A powerful film, a defining testament to the ties which bond us all.
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. I still vividly remember watching it in school as a child and how profoundly it affected my world view. Now I get to share it with my kids. Awesome!
Huge shoutout to the production team on this video. Really spectacular for 1977!
Thats a really good camera.. whats the zoom on it?
i believe is 10x
wow :o it must've taken a very strong throw to get it up to the 24th power of 10! with modern strength training, we could throw it up to the 69th and see *joe who*
10^41
*edit: sorry it would be 10^40
so much
Oh only 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000X zoom
Major respect for the camera man who flew all the way outside of our galactic supercluster and then into a single proton
the fact that this lasts exactly 9 minutes instead of 10 triggers my OCD
The fact that the narrator says "Soldiers Field" rather than "Soldier Field" triggers mine.
The fact that neither of you actually has OCD triggers .. someone I'm sure. I actually don't care.
I saw this in High School, still gives me goosebumps today! I remember a large book of the movie, each page taking you further out and further in. It had such an impact on me, it blew my tiny brain!! So pleased to have found it again.
Yo how this more entertaining than a movie
movies are extremely entertaining. you need to fill your glass with movies and take a hearty gulp my friend. earthly delights await you. GULP GULP GULP *takes a swig of LIFE* - Stanly Rubik's
Everyone: Going into space without a helmet is impossible
*The cameraman:*
He didn't have to hold his breath for THAT long. The impressive thing is that he also continued talking through it that whole time.
@@medexamtoolscom 🔺👁
Cameraman OP
i guess the opposite will do him nicely
I remember this from when I was a kid and watched it at the National Air and Space Museum. I love it!
skweeds: There's an updated 1996 version narrated by Morgan Freeman called Cosmic Voyage. It's on TH-cam. Not much is different in the new version except for showing the superclusters of galaxies.
That’s where I first saw it. Late 70’s in junior high.
4:50 "This emptiness is normal; the richness of our own neighbourhood is the exception."
They showed us this video in college and it changed my life. Made in 1977!!
This makes me feel SO SMALL and then SO BIG
That's what she's said
I still just feel small
Physics is drugs
makes me like 🐌
Turns out you are actually average sized.
That speed of light line (in 1 second) is so interesting. Kinda shows you how slow that is still compared to the size of the universe (or how big the universe is compared to it)
Not slow at all if u factor in time dilation its still infinitely fast
@@seandafny only from its own perspective, not an external viewpoint.
Censtudios- It also shows the box we are in unless we find a way around the "speed of light" speed limit. Most of the universe is way beyond our reach.
How the heck do they make this?
IN 1977?!
It actually had to be earlier. My dad had a copy of it in 1972, I took it to my high school biology class and they played it.
kevin yang Computers bigger then your house.
Ann Hackler wow you're old no offense
There's an earlier version. It was a rough draft, if I recall.
We went to the moon in 1969. So making a movie wouldn't be so hard...
I keep having to remind people on facebook that this is still infinitely better than the awful viral video that goes around these days, which attempts to show something similar but is worse in every aspect.
@ lol
Every Human has to watch this video #mindblown
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I keep watching this every couple of years.....because it is absolutely, and simply, brilliant
I want to inform people that even to this day(early 2022 roughly 45 years after its production) in my college Astronomy course, this film is still shown. I imagine and deeply hope that it will be shown forever.
I have one or two copies of this on 16 mm film and used to show it at techno parties at the beginning of the rave scene in Los Angeles
Size and distance are so well displayed on this film.It also makes individual human problems appear to be such a minor part of the whole.
Wow. I remember seeing this over 40 years ago. It is still as mind blowing at age 54 as it was when I was 10. 😊👍
It blew my mind. It gave me some perspective about what we are.
OHHH MY GODD I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN WHEN I WAS LIKE 10
Like 8 or 8 ?
Me too...
My head exploded.
Why the fuck did i create all this crap...
+Flareman229: I'm not sure whether watching it on drugs makes it better . . . or worse.
Seena Kakar And me bless them they did so! #yolo (not in my case though)
+Seena Kakar Jesus was not Christian, instead Jewish.
Rip
it's so weird thinking about how small we are in this whole universe
it's also very soothing
i mean of course you'll look small if you keep zooming out
Or how big we are
Also how we are not really physical matter at all, at our most basic fundamental core we and everything around us is energy in a state of vibration / frequency. As a child I thought all matter would simply be made up of just smaller bits of solid matter, I was blown away when I learned what atoms and particles really were. How can you group billions of intangible energy particles together and its feels like solid matter to us. Physics is amazing.
Surprisingly we are in incredibly big too, compared to the smallest things at the floor of the universe. So big that we are closer to the size of the observable universe is closer to use than the plank length.
I remember seeing this as a kid in the early 90s or something. It has really stood the test of time. Public science at its best.
It was created in the 70s…u watched it nearly 20+ years later…and here i am watching it in 2022 and still mind blown….there is a newere version made by bbc and narrated by brian cox. That one just shows the space part and not the molecular level but still very interesting and well made with great resolution and attention to detail.
I'm leaving a comment for all the people who will come here because of CGP Grey
oh hello
Ohhh haiii Marrrrr-garita.
No, no, no, I watched this a long time ago, then CGP Grey, and then came back here to compare.
CGP wanted some views so he slapped the idea of folding paper ( as if it would make anything more interesting ) into a lazily compiled copy
im here because of my math teacher
6:10 This also demonstrates the importance of moisturising.
I watched this video when it shared first time at internet world. Right now something made me feel to watch it again. 2023 July…
Nobody:
Me: vibing to the music in the beginning
overused ass joke, get creative
Nobody memes are dead
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAAAA AAHAHAHHHAHAHHAAHHAAAA that was so great. gotta love that whole nobody thing. just epic.
Knowing it was made 41 years ago, this still explodes my brain...
I remember watching this in my childhood 7th grade science class. It's as fascinating now as it was then, 45 years ago. Even today with modern cinematic and computer animation, this still stands up to the test of time. The concept and thinking it inspires is timeless to be sure.
2024, took 47 years to watch. I was also born in 77’ 😂
Watching this video in 2021, interestingly suggested by an online lecturer in Immunology. I'm definitely going to have my 6 and 9-yr kids watch this... I'm 100% certain they will be amazed!
Such an incredible masterpiece that's 12 years ago!!! it is super ahead of it's time!!!
This was made in the 1970’s lol
@@Empika I was about to say
Can't wait for the HD remake.
Just found this gem via UC Berkeley. Will be using it with my high school physics students this fall.
It would be amazing to see this remade today and see how far we've come
@Octobers Lazy Own hello from the director's commentary
@Octobers Lazy Own Sweet! I'll have to check it out. Thanks heaps!
0:24 when that music came on I felt like I was watching a creepypasta video for a second
*_Lol_*
***** Putting Creepypasta into this video is like putting Cancer into ice cream. So stop spreading that shit.
Jerry Mores i had this gut feeling someone would eventually say something along the lines of that at some point
Trueee
0:02 Illuminati confirmed.
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I remember watching this video when I was in high school (1980).....now I teach high school physics and show it to my classes!
It’s a once in a lifetime thing you see people hearting comments after 10 years and I respect that 100 %
I can’t be the only one that feels like this is some type of hypnosis
A Universe without, and a Universe within
infinite universes within and without.
That's just conjecture. There's some slight evidence for the Multiverse hypothesis, though, in the graininess and distribution of the CMB (cosmic microwave background) radiation.
Well put and beautifully perfect. The fact that we stand between both universes makes us all the more unique, just in the fact we recognize it.
As above so below
One of my favorite videos.
Its such a shame this only has 6 million views.
I know its still lots, but compared to popular music videos, that is tiny amount and it also shows how ignorant most of us as a human race actually are..
Absolutely amazed to see how people so eagerly give praise and credit to the makers of the film, camraman, etc. ...but none to the great creator of all these wonderful things !
finally people are realizing the lie of religion.
oh boy! :o I had seen the macro universe part before but not the micro and it gave me chills down my spine :o it's so crazy that we're made of so many atoms and that everything around us is made of them :o if I had the power of showing this video to someone from our history, I'd choose Democritus! I freaking love science
Jessy Acuña gj, you got me to read it
Jessy Acuña your gey
@JP Acuña: I don't trust atoms, they make up everything!
It's been years since I last saw this, and I'm as blown away as ever. Such awesome perspective. We humans think we're sooooo important, but in the great scheme of things, we are nothing.
That's an impressive camera.
That's an extra impressive position for the one using it.
Cameraman is crazy
For all guitar nerds, this is the film that inspired the great Shawn Lane during the composition of his famous Power Of Ten album.
Since he was a great fan of sience based shows and knowledge, this mini film heavily inspired him.
That alien camera has a very good zoom.
+Nicolay “Satyren” Schjelderup: It's never about the camera. It's all about where you place it . . .
1977. No computerized images nor sounds. The budget was barely. Yet... "Powers of Ten" captivated me as a young college student, when I first saw it.... It was the forerunner to the amazing journeys created today by computerized imaging. (Today's "Epic Spaceman" shows just one series of many shining examples.) All I can say is..... Hold your breath. Wait for tomorrow.
Whoever still saw the picnic after getting to the entire universe you have extremely good eye sight
This video was made 10 years ago and the guy is still hearting comments. What a mad lad.
"He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."
Psalms 147:4-5
4:50 If you look really closely you can still see the picnic.
woah, you're right
Nah mate i can see the atom
@@jaystiller5644 I've been thinking about upgrading my reading glasses.
Impossible
But I see individual pixels if I would watch this film even in 4K. The picnic can be seen in 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999K:)
I thought on this video from my high school days in the '70s and mentioned it to my brother, who had not seen it. I didn't know the title, but did a keyword search using the words "man zoom out into space..." or something like that. I was elated to see it posted on YT! I would love to see this amazing video digitally re-edited in high-definition!
I saw this film at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL over 40 years ago. Given it was produced in 1977, and how much of its presentation still holds up as well is honest about the limits of its capacity to simulate reality, its a true masterpiece of educational media.
I feel absolutely mesmerized by seeing this. Considering how big our universe is, counting by powers of 10 really shows us the expansion of the universe and what it looks like and shows how tiny we and the solar system are if we keep counting up by powers of 10. Even technologies back then, when discussing the universe, show us how close or how far we are away from the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond.
I feel so small and unimportant now...
@Andrew Jacob Sauer Well said.
i remember in high school my teacher put this shit on and I'm pretty sure it was intended to teach but really it just made me feel like I had an lsd trip
Wish I had a drone like that.
Thank you! I remember this video as a kid at the australian museum, and so happy to have found it again!
41.864552, -87.613714 is the coordinate where they're took a picnic... For 38 years changing, then the garden is green and the left side of the park is straight, now not straight, and the step at the park not like on 1977... Near Dock C and D (between)... Or search at Google Maps, "Shedd Aquarium" and move it to the south
Massive respect for this dude hearting comments all these years later
Edit: oh wait sorry somebody else made this comment
Imagine explaining in the 70s to the people making this, that as we get more advanced, we will be besieged by flat earthers...
Please !!!Put today's version too
The guy narrating the video sounds like the chubby guy that Arnold Schwarzenegger shot in the head in Total Recall movie.
I had a friend who thought it was Sterling Holloway, the original voice of Winnie the Pooh. It wasn't until IMDb that I found out otherwise.
I've watched this and shown classrooms this for years and years. I think this video is one of the greatest achievements of the 1970's. It looks like it could have been made recently. There are some other videos that try to take on this topic and some websites, like star scale youtube video and Nikon has a cool universal scale app, but nothing is done as well as this. It truly takes on how big is big and how small is small!
I have seen this in my youth when it was formulated on an 8mm film reel and I seen it on a pull down white screen… when I went to college to study art… it came up again… I’m
So grateful that I seen it in my youth- in the 1980’s
who else watched it just because Tilda Swinton recommended it?
just watched her interview, paused it to watch this
same!
@@buffedtrainer1 Same!
yes!
@Carl Giuliano oh, thanks for your so unneeded opinion haha
Fuck your racist ass, too.
Sincerely,
This is wonderful- so glad I found it.
Who recognized that this was the reference of Brysons Tiller’s Always forever video
Finally found it, i didnt even watch this for school or anything my dad downloaded this video from those best of youtube podcasts for my ipod nano ive watched it so much i still remember over 10 years later
POV: you came here because your teacher told you to watch this video
I was so excited to be reminded of the title. I saw it at an art camp in 1978. Can't wait to watch again!
4:55 "...as are the feelings of emptiness, hopelessness, and failure. Welcome to life, kid."
they used to have this film in a stand alone kiosk at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago...it was always nice and relaxing to take a break and sit and watch this
thumbs up if you want:
A 40 YEAR VERSION OF THIS
I have no idea where I saw this back in the 70s but I always remembered it - and happily found it when computers became the norm.