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Cosmic Voyage

Cosmic Voyage
Cosmic Voyage Film Poster.jpeg
Directed by Bayley Silleck
Produced by Jeffrey Marvin
Bayley Silleck
Written by Michael Miner
Bayley Silleck
Narrated by Morgan Freeman
Music by David Michael Frank
Production
company
Cosmic Voyage Inc.
Distributed by IMAX Corporation
National Air and Space Museum
Release date
1996
Running time
36 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Cosmic Voyage is a 1996 short documentary film produced in the IMAX format, directed by Bayley Silleck, produced by Jeffrey Marvin, and narrated by Morgan Freeman. The film was presented by the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, and played in IMAX theaters worldwide. The film is available in the DVD format.

Cosmic Voyage takes on a similar format as the National Film Board of Canada's Cosmic Zoom, and IBM's classic Powers of Ten educational video. All based on the book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke. The film takes viewers on a journey through forty-two orders of magnitude, beginning at a celebration in Italy to zoom to the edge of the observable universe. The view descends back to earth, and later zooms in upon a raindrop on a leaf, to the level of subatomic particles (quarks).

In addition, the film offers some brief insight on the Big Bang theory, black holes, and the development of our Solar System. It also simulates a journey through Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator in Chicago, where an atom collision is depicted.


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