Cosmic Voyage is a short documentary movie directed by Bayley Selleck, produced by Jeffrey Marvin, and narrated by Morgan Freeman that was released in 1996 in the IMAX format. The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution presented the film, which was shown in IMAX cinemas across the world. The DVD movie is available.
The format of Cosmic Voyage is comparable to Eva Szasz’s Cosmic Zoom and Charles and Ray Eames’ iconic educational video Powers of Ten. All were based on Dutch educator Kees Boeke’s 1957 book Cosmic View. Beginning with a party in Venice, Italy, and gradually expanding out to the boundary of the observable cosmos, Cosmic Voyage takes viewers on a voyage through forty-two orders of magnitude.
The perspective then returns to Earth, zooming in on a raindrop on a leaf on a hoop used in the previous celebration, down to the level of subatomic particles (quarks). The movie also provides a quick overview of the Big Bang theory, black holes, and the evolution of our Solar System. It also depicts an atom collision as travel via Fermilab’s Tevatron particle accelerator in Chicago.
Cosmic Voyage was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1997.
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