Editing Powers of Ten (film series) (section)

=== 1977 version ===
The film begins with an overhead view of a man and woman picnicking in a park at the [[Chicago]] lakefront — a {{convert|1|m|ft|sp=us|adj=mid}} overhead image of the figures on a blanket surrounded by food and books they brought with them, one of them being ''The Voices of Time'' by [[J.T. Fraser|J. T. Fraser]]. The man (played by Swiss designer Paul Bruhwiler) then sleeps, while the woman (played by Eames staffer Etsu Garfias) starts to read one of the books. The viewpoint, accompanied by [[Dramatic structure#Exposition|expository]] [[voiceover]] by [[Philip Morrison]], then slowly zooms out to a view {{convert|10|m|ft|sp=us}} across (or {{nowrap|10<sup>1</sup> meters}} in [[scientific notation]]). The zoom-out continues (at a rate of one power of ten per 10 seconds), to a view of {{convert|100|m|ft|sp=us}}<!--10^2--> (where they are shown to be in [[Burnham Park (Chicago)|Burnham Park]],<ref name="Slate Hughes">{{cite news |last1=Hughes |first1=James |title=The Power of Powers of Ten |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/12/powers_of_ten_how_charles_and_ray_eames_experimental_film_changed_the_way.html |access-date=September 12, 2022 |work=Slate |date=December 4, 2012}}</ref> near [[Soldier Field]], then {{convert|1|km|ft|sp=us}}<!--10^3--> (where we see the entirety of Chicago), and so on, increasing the perspective and continuing to zoom out to a field of view of {{nowrap|10<sup>24</sup> meters}}, or a field of view 100 million [[light year]]s across. The camera then zooms back in at a rate of a power of ten per 2 seconds to the picnic, and then slows back down to its original rate into the man's hand, to views of negative powers of ten: 10 [[centimeter]]s ({{nowrap|10<sup>−1</sup> meters}}), and so forth, revealing a [[white blood cell]] and zooming in on it—until the camera comes to [[quark]]s in a [[proton]] of a [[carbon]] [[atom]] at {{nowrap|10<sup>−16</sup> meters}}.<ref name="Aiga"/>