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Cosmic View has, in turn, inspired the beautiful, haunting photoplay Cosmic Zoom, illustrated in 1968 for the National Film Board of Canada by Eva Szasz, who animates the essay by Kees Boeke, zooming from the scale of a proton to the scale of a galaxy in the span of eight minutes. Szasz depicts a Canadian juvenile rowing a boat on the Ottawa River,¹⁰ and much like Boeke in his essay, she also zooms away from the hand of the boy, rising into the atmosphere, passing vast spirals of stars, until reaching a pancosmic perspective; then the animator zooms down into the hand of the boy, diving into a hematocyte, passing tiny helices of atoms, until reaching a subatomic perspective. Szasz places the child in a mise en abyme, whose recursive reframing oscillates between two voids — two blots of black space, each one like a full stop at either end of a palindrome.