Charles Eames Movies

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...

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...

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

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

Created as a demonstration of multi-disciplinary thinking, this film was produced in association with UCLA Mathematics professor, Ray Redheffer. With...

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

Based on an existing slide show the Eames Office had made about the exhibition, A Computer Perspective (produced for IBM in 1971). The film is a...

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.

"Based on the exhibition "Photography and the city", designed by the Eames Office for the Smithsonian Institute". A primer on the modern problems of...

A Rough Sketch features a linear view of our universe from the human scale to the sea of galaxies, then directly down to the nucleus of a carbon...

The movie "Clown Face" offers a very rare glimpse into the backstage private world of Circus Clowns. Here, you can look behind the curtain. You will...

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany...

The concept of a mathematical function is illustrated as used in science.

Atlas gives the viewer an overview of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. Beginning in 500 BC, a time clock at the bottom of the screen marks off...

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

A morality film where Sherlock Holmes solves a case using Boolean logic.

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

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

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

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...