Charles Eames Movies

Featuring narration by Walter Cronkite.

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...

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...

Documentary short

With a cast consisting exclusively of toys, a Japanese windup boy carrying a suitcase has a series of encounters with other windup toys. Large...

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

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

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...

This film was made by the Eamses on a weeks notice for a local Los Angeles TV show where jazz musicians improvised to the images live. The music that...

Using live-action footage, animation, and still photography of a scale model, this film presents the Eames unique multimedia concept for making the...

Produced to introduce the functions and design properties of the Eames Contract Storage units. This innovative use of live-action and animation...

Utilizing surveys and reports on the background of cable television, this film explores its place in the world of television, and its future...

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

A short film of the opening of the last museum exhibition prepared by the Eames. The exhibition was called "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" and...

The subject of problem solving begins with an explanation of what the Eameses called “the information machine, “a device for presenting...