Cosmic zoom

Duration: 8

Year Published: 1969

Creator: CRM/McGraw Hill

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A combination of live-action, animation and use of the zoom lense takes the viewer on a cosmic journey from a mosquito on a boy's hand outward into space; then back again into the cellular structure of the human body. Designed to give the viewer an idea of the immeasurable grandeur of space and the ultimate minuteness of matter. , Uses the camera device of the zoom to give an idea of the immeasurable vastness of space and the ultimate minuteness of matter. MCLS subject heading: Experimental, Miscellaneous & Abstract Films.

Complete Record: A combination of live-action, animation and use of the zoom lense takes the viewer on a cosmic journey from a mosquito on a boy's hand outward into space; then back again into the cellular structure of the human body. Designed to give the viewer an idea of the immeasurable grandeur of space and the ultimate minuteness of matter. , Uses animated art and photography to suggest the relationship between the seen and the unseen world. Illustrated by one giant zoom--from a boy fishing on a river, to the most distant conceivable point of the universe, and then back again to the young fisherman and to final infinity inside him., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.