Charles Eames Movies

Interviews with the junior designers swept into the 24-7 world of "The Eamery" are the heart of this complex picture of a husband-and-wife creative...

A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of...

The Fabulous Fifties, CBS, combines style, humor, and imagination. It was rich in touches of quality showmanship and equally rich in the memories of...

An excerpt from the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, which Charles delivered at Harvard University in 1970-71. Includes an evocative discussion of what...

The process of manufacturing fiberglass chairs is shown through visuals only, with no narration.

Charles and Ray produced this film for IBM’s pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Information Machine was the first...

Created with imagery taken from the 19th-Century Japanese woodcuts on display in the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “The Japanese...

An early attempt to present communications theory, made to encourage the breaking down of barriers of thinking between disciplines and to discourage...

The life and work of the astronomer Nicolas Copernicus are shown by means of images of his writings and drawings and places he was associated with.

From hardware to software, the basics of then-current computing technology is explained.

hese two churches, Viersehnheiligen and Ottobeuren are rich examples of mid-18th-Century German Baroque, a time when music, literature, architecture...

To avoid making travelers walk excessive distances through a large airport, Washington, D.C.'s new airport is to use mobile departure lounges to...

A promotional film for the Eames designed Polaroid Sx-70 camera.

This film was produced to present the Eames proposal to make an American Revolution Bicentennial celebration. The exhibition would compare and...

An interesting look at the world of toy trains, shot from the perspective of the little world itself. Originally created for model train enthusiasts,...

Presented without voiceover, various kinds of breads are displayed and broken in a joyous celebration of starch, seed and salt.

A multi-screen presentation at the Ovoid Theater of the IBM Pavilion of the New York World's Fair.

The short film uses a variety of familiar examples that have the feedback principle in common to present a broad view of the phenomena present in...

A film record of an exhibition of the late work of Paul Cezanne, organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux in Paris....

The lives of Franklin and Jefferson are used as prisms through which to evoke colonial America. With a dynamic timeline and a wealth of images drawn...