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Powers of Ten<\/em> is one of the Eameses\u2019 best-known films. Since it was produced in 1977, it has been seen by millions of people both nationally and internationally. As with A Communication Primer<\/em><\/a> and 2n <\/em>(a 2-minute Peep Show from the exhibition, Mathematica<\/a><\/em>), in this film, Charles and Ray<\/a> employed the system of exponential powers to visualize the importance of scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Eameses came across the 1957 book by Kees Boeke<\/a>, Cosmic View<\/a><\/em>: <\/a>The Universe in Forty Jumps<\/a><\/em>, they decided to use it as the basis of a film investigating the relative size of things and the significance of adding a zero to any number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powers of Ten<\/em> illustrates the universe as an arena of both continuity and change, of everyday picnics and cosmic mystery. Itbegins with a close-up shot of a man sleeping near the lakeside in Chicago, viewed from one meter away. The landscape steadily moves out until it reveals the edge of the known universe. Then, at a rate of 10-to-the-tenth meters per second, the film takes us towards Earth again, continuing back to the sleeping man\u2019s hand and eventually down to the level of a carbon atom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1998, Powers of Ten <\/em>was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry<\/a> by the Library of Congress<\/a> as being \u201cculturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn about the importance of Powers-of-Ten thinking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n