Editing Powers of Ten (film series) (section)

==History and background==
The first film, '''''A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe''''',<ref name=Aiga>{{cite web |last=Repp |first=Philip |date=April 2001 |title=Loop: AIGA Journal of Interaction Design Education - Three Information Design Lessons |url=http://loop1.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentID=30 |access-date=7 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405133558/http://loop1.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentID=30 |archive-date=5 April 2015}}</ref> was a prototype and was completed in 1968; the second film, '''''Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero''''',<ref>{{cite news |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |date=April 26, 2005 |title=Philip Morrison, 89, Builder of First Atom Bomb, Dies |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |edition=New York |issn=0362-4331 |oclc=1645522 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/science/26morrison.html |access-date= March 25, 2015 |quote=He helped write the script and narrated the 1977 film "Powers of Ten," also by Charles and Ray Eames, in which a camera zooms from a couple having a picnic in Chicago out to the limits of the cosmos and then back down through the woman's hand to the level of atoms and quarks. In 1992, he and his wife, Phyllis, with the Eameses, turned it into a book. ''Correction: April 28, 2005, Thursday: An obituary on Tuesday about Dr. Philip Morrison, a Manhattan Project scientist who helped assemble the first atomic bomb and later campaigned against it, misstated the release date of "Powers of Ten," a film narrated and partly written by Dr. Morrison that takes viewers to the outer edge of the cosmos. It was released in 1968. (It was rereleased in 1977.)''}}</ref> was completed in 1977.

The ''Powers of Ten'' films were adaptations of the book ''[[Cosmic View]]'' (1957) by [[Netherlands|Dutch]] educator [[Kees Boeke]].<ref>Boeke, Kees. ''Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps''. John Day Co., 1957.</ref> Both films, and a book based on the second film,<ref>Morrison, Philip, et al. ''Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe''. Scientific American Books, 1990.</ref> follow the form of the Boeke original, adding color and photography to the black and white drawings employed by Boeke in his seminal work.

The 1977 film has a number of changes from the prototype, including being entirely in color, moving the starting location from [[Miami]] to [[Chicago]], removing the relativistic (time) dimension, introducing an additional two powers of ten at each extreme, a change in narrator from Judith Bronowski to [[Philip Morrison]], and much-improved graphics.<ref name="Aiga"/>