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    Added on Wednesday 20 January 2010 08:49:26
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    http://www.nfb.ca/film/cosmic_zoom/
    This film probes the infinite magnitude of space, and its reverse, the ultimate minuteness of matter. Animation art and animation camera achieve this journey to the farthest conceivable point of the universe and then into the tiniest particle of existence--an atom of a living human cell--with a freshness and clarity that would seem impossible with other means of exposition. Film without words.



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  • dner75

    Can't enjoy a beautiful, poignant cartoon illustrating the beauty and vastness of the universe without the Jesus-freaks crawling out of the woodwork. 
    Saturday 21 January 2012 03:29:05
  • carmium

    @CthulhuSpawn007 Nah, if God actually existed it would suck big time. Really.
    Thursday 29 December 2011 03:17:16
  • sharingan41

    The beging sound like Clasic music with some mexican style, after sounds a little bach, late sound like pink floyd, and then its repeat over again (y) great!
    Monday 28 November 2011 16:45:43
  • lightitupfool

    Jesus wasn't smart enough to be a quantum physicist, not even a family physician. He could of saved thousands of lives just by telling them to wash there hands. I mean walking on water is cool but... can you leave us a medical book rather than a barbaric Santa Clause tale. PS Horus wants his story back thieves, he was 1000 yrs before Jesus. GOOGLE IT. #Logic2012
    Saturday 22 October 2011 13:41:11
  • lightitupfool

    The orderliness and beauty of nature? You are the people on the mountain top thanking god for that order and beauty while I'm behind you with a rattle snake and poisonous cactus. When the fangs enter your neck and the cactus penetrates your skin you won't be thinking beauty. I'm also gonna kick you off that mountain and hope you can fly, if not there is water at the bottom hope you can breathe underwater. Oh wait we puke,breathe, talk, eat through the same hole... stupid design.
    Saturday 22 October 2011 13:31:54
  • ivorlottandtonybroke

    @CthulhuSpawn007 If God does not exist, how do we explain the orderliness and beauty in everything from the expansion and contraction of the universe right down to atomic structure? I refuse to believe that it's all a matter of accident, as accidents produce chaos and mess, not orderliness. No, having pondered this issue on and off for 32 years, I believe that creation reflects the orderliness and power of God, that we are made in the image of God, and that Jesus reflects the essence of God.
    Monday 12 September 2011 13:25:29
  • michaelvankampen

    Saw this as a kid in the 70's - today I wonder if it affected my philosophy back then or if I was already predisposed to this kind of "inner reaches of outer space" philosophising. Anyway, very glad to find it again...
    Wednesday 31 August 2011 09:28:55
  • issyvoo2

    Love love loved this as a kid. I used to show it at my birthday parties. I wasn't a very popular child.
    Monday 01 August 2011 21:30:55
  • DIACElectronicMusic

    @six66www why is this comment showing below the clip? The clip has no more to do with god than any other clip. now go away.
    Saturday 18 June 2011 13:30:08
  • cbsteffen

    I remember seeing this when I was about 8 or 9. That cell that zooms in from 6:27-6:48 scared me. Doesn't it remind you of the Viacom V of Doom?
    Thursday 14 April 2011 22:35:25
  • totalele

    I know Powers of Ten!
    Thursday 03 February 2011 17:00:36
  • JevTV

    This is a real blast from the past. I saw this back in the days where we watched 16mm film projected in our classrooms at school. There is another film (a little more scientific) with the same theme, called "Powers of Ten". Thanks for posting this.
    Sunday 30 January 2011 03:26:24
  • hoppetosse8

    It's a great idea! But for my taste it's a bit too long and for this slow development the single pictures don't catch me enough in their artistic expressiveness - but thanks anyway - still an inspiration
    Wednesday 05 January 2011 17:09:20
  • julieannu

    @TheGhostOfBarryEvans Me too! Same thing!
    Tuesday 04 January 2011 15:00:14
  • julieannu

    @TheGhostOfBarryEvans Me too! Same thing!
    Tuesday 04 January 2011 15:00:10
  • julieannu

    Can anyone work out the roman numerals? MCMLXVIII? I think that's 1968.
    Tuesday 04 January 2011 14:59:47
  • seigneurvoland666

    you are the void, we r the void
    Wednesday 15 December 2010 23:33:22
  • jmccl826

    Blew my mind as a kid; blows it still today.
    Friday 03 December 2010 16:13:55
  • jmccl826

    Blew my mind as a kid; blows my mind still today.
    Friday 03 December 2010 16:13:15
  • novice841

    The first time I saw this, it had been included in an episode of a mid-1970s ABC kids' show called, "Curiosity Shop." Very memorable, even to this day.
    Saturday 27 November 2010 18:02:18
  • F22PilotArcile

    That's one pretty big picture, yo.
    Monday 01 November 2010 23:31:22
  • TheGhostOfBarryEvans

    I've been searching for this film for years based on a hazy childhood memory from the late '70s. Thank you so much for posting it.
    Friday 22 October 2010 13:53:22
  • Frutti87

    Shit! this video accelerates like crazy. I was holdin on to my seat to not fall of it.
    Thursday 21 October 2010 03:45:15
  • WritingOnCashNotes

    @BillyBobsEel I looked it up because of your comment, wow! :)
    Wednesday 20 October 2010 16:31:13
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