{"id":4121,"date":"2009-01-29T01:40:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T01:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2009-01-29T01:40:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T01:40:33","slug":"cosmic-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/29\/cosmic-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/cosmic_zoom\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4122\" title=\"cosmic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/cosmic.jpg\" alt=\"cosmic.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/cosmic.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/cosmic-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/cosmic_zoom\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cosmic Zoom<\/em><\/a> (1968) is a short, semi-animated film by Eva Szasz, one of the many great shorts financed by the National Film Board of Canada. When I wrote about this in 2006 there was only a low-res version available for viewing on the NFB site while <a href=\"http:\/\/powersof10.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Powers of Ten<\/em><\/a> (1977), a very similar film by Charles and Ray Eames, could be seen on YouTube. Three years on and <em>Powers of Ten<\/em> has disappeared behind a registration wall but <em>Cosmic Zoom<\/em> can now be seen in higher quality on the newly relaunched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">NFB site<\/a>. A shame about the annoyingly obtrusive onscreen logo but it&#8217;s worth browsing the site for more of their excellent animations, not least the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/explore-by\/director\/Norman-McLaren\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norman McLaren<\/a>. The time when these shorts would regularly turn up on UK TV are long gone so it&#8217;s good to know that they&#8217;re now available for viewing any time we wish.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/12\/norman-mclaren\/\" target=\"_self\">Norman McLaren<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/03\/12\/cosmic-zooms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmic Zooms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic Zoom (1968) is a short, semi-animated film by Eva Szasz, one of the many great shorts financed by the National Film Board of Canada. When I wrote about this in 2006 there was only a low-res version available for viewing on the NFB site while Powers of Ten (1977), a very similar film by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/29\/cosmic-zoom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cosmic Zoom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,52,7,13],"tags":[162,160,161,159,163],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-animation","category-film","category-science","tag-charles-eames","tag-eva-szasz","tag-national-film-board-of-canada","tag-norman-mclaren","tag-ray-eames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-14t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}