Charles Eames Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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....

A parable, photographed in live-action, about the use of eating utensils in India. Doubling as a social commentary, this film also examines the...

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...

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

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

A seven-screen presentation for the American pavilion at the Moscow World's Fair.

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.

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 rare, live-action, and close-up study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine, a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19th-Century...

Photographed through a mirror system to achieve radial kaleidoscopic images, the beginning portion of this film consists of fast-moving kaleidoscopic...

Stop-motion animation depicts a man assembling an Eames lounge chair, sitting down to relax in it, and then disassembling it for shipment.

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

The film sets forth the objectives of the planned Center, describes its architectural program, and gives a guided tour through a model of the...

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

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