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From the first time we saw this it’s been a favorite. Imi­tated often but the orig­i­nal is an amaz­ing acces­si­ble expla­na­tion of expo­nents. We hope you enjoy it.

from the Eames Office:

Pow­ers of Ten takes us on an adven­ture in mag­ni­tudes. Start­ing at a pic­nic by the lake­side in Chicago, this famous film trans­ports us to the outer edges of the uni­verse. Every ten sec­onds we view the start­ing point from ten times far­ther out until our own galaxy is vis­i­ble only a s a speck of light among many oth­ers. Return­ing to Earth with breath­tak­ing speed, we move inward– into the hand of the sleep­ing pic­nicker– with ten times more mag­ni­fi­ca­tion every ten sec­onds. Our jour­ney ends inside a pro­ton of a car­bon atom within a DNA mol­e­cule in a white blood cell. POWERS OF TEN © 1977 EAMES OFFICE LLC (www.eamesoffice.com)