Charles Eames Movies

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

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

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...

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 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.

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

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

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

A visually elegant study of water on a schoolyard playground.

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

Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM...

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

Animated graphic symbols presented in a constant time frame are used to diagram and explain the laws of planetary motion devised by the...

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

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...

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

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

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...