Today is Powers of 10 Day, 10/10/2007, which is a famous film made by Charles and Ray Eames in 1977 that takes the viewer from a picnic scene, off of Earth, out of the Solar System, galaxy, and into deep space. It’s a film concept that has been often repeated in films like Men in Black and Contact, the “God-Perspective Crane Shot.”

It’s a great film, one that stresses our place in a Universe, which is much vaster in size than our ancestors figured, yet smaller than what many of us Space Age kids thought it would be.

Google Video has the film here.

The Simpsons also did a tribute to this film.

See also the IMAX Cosmic Voyage for a modern, computer-enhanced version of this film narrated by Morgan Freeman, and he played god in a couple of movies, you know, and narrated March of the Penguins, so right there you know this short film is going to make you pee your pants with awe.