[2][3] The film starts with an aerial image of a boy rowing with his dog in a boat on the Ottawa River.
The continuous zoom-out takes the viewer on a journey from Earth, past the Moon, the planets of the Solar System, the Milky Way and out into the far reaches of the then known universe.
The process is then reversed, and the view zooms back through space to Earth, returning to the boy on the boat.
It aired on ABC in the fall of 1971 as part of the children's television show Curiosity Shop, executive produced by Chuck Jones.
[5] In the UK it was shown at least twice as a segment of the children's TV magazine programme Blue Peter.