# ID this Science Film?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 29, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380 "2007-08-29T16:53:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/1 "2007-08-29T16:53:07Z")
Years ago I remember this film shown on PBS:
Some guy Is having a picnic or something in the park and lays down for a nap. The camera starts pulling away…high as a kite, and airplane, a jetliner…pulling back like a rocket.
You’re pulling back into orbital altitude.
You see the globe of the earth, the moon, the orbit of earth around the sun, the solar system, local stars, the galaxy, the universe.
Then you start zooming back and you’re once again looking at the napping guy. you start zooming in to the guy’s hand, skin flakes, cells, molecules, atoms, atomic nucleus…
What is the name of this film, or how do I phrase a google search?
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/2 "2007-08-29T16:59:10Z")
Powers of 10.
Eames.
Awesome.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/3 "2007-08-29T17:02:50Z")
[Powers of Ten](http://youtube.com/watch?v=ua5OWEXRgvU) (on YouTube)
[Simpsons Parody](http://youtube.com/watch?v=yCfDRvDWid0)
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### Author:  [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/4 "2007-08-29T17:02:59Z")
Since I was way too slow I changed my post to the IMDB link.
[Powers of Ten](http://imdb.com/title/tt0078106/)
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/5 "2007-08-29T17:12:09Z")
Here it is on [Youtube](http://youtube.com/watch?v=qzkAs14B2OE). Although I recall there was narration to go along with it, not just ambient Tangerine Dream music. I kind of remember it being in B&W as well. Are there different versions of this flm?
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/6 "2007-08-29T17:14:51Z")
[xkcd: Powers of One](http://xkcd.com/271/)
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### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/7 "2007-08-29T17:26:02Z")
Teh awesome…it _burns!_
😃
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/8 "2007-08-29T17:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman]
Here it is on [Youtube](http://youtube.com/watch?v=qzkAs14B2OE). Although I recall there was narration to go along with it, not just ambient Tangerine Dream music. I kind of remember it being in B&W as well. Are there different versions of this flm?
[/QUOTE]
Yes. For some reason, someone (AFAIK, not Eames) decided to re-make the film. I saw the re-make at the Lowell Observatory. The original was MUCH better.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/9 "2007-08-29T18:52:44Z")
Dangit, **Bosstone** , I was going to post that one!
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### Author:  [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/10 "2007-08-29T19:03:52Z")
There’s a 6-DVD set with all of the Eames’ films that was released a couple of years ago (it’s available on Netflix). I only made it through the first 2 disks, and “Powers of Ten” is by far the coolest, but there is some other neat stuff on there, too, including an earlier rough version of “Powers of Ten”.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/11 "2007-08-29T19:12:03Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff]
Yes. For some reason, someone (AFAIK, not Eames) decided to re-make the film. I saw the re-make at the Lowell Observatory. The original was MUCH better.
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My link in post 3 has the narration, but fairly poor video quality.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-science-film/417380/12 "2007-08-29T19:41:40Z")
Elmer Bernstein wrote the music for quite a few of the Eames films and his scores are even compiled onto [CD](http://www.amazon.com/Music-Films-Charles-Ray-Eames/dp/B000ACOYHS/ref=sr_1_2/102-3908851-8858548?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1188416452&sr=8-2).