Movies: Charles Eames

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

The Eames House and Studio is explored via a series of slides....

To avoid making travelers walk excessive distances through a large airport, Washington, D.C.'s new airport is to use mobile departure lounges to transport passengers from the terminal directly to the plane....

The film sets forth the objectives of the planned Center, describes its architectural program, and gives a guided tour through a model of the galleries and exhibits. From the narration: “…the principal goal [of the Center] is much the same as science...

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

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 Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry...

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....

Animated graphic symbols presented in a constant time frame are used to diagram and explain the laws of planetary motion devised by the Sixteenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. “Little Suite”, guitar and lute music composed by Galileo Galilei’s ...

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 Mathematica Exhibit which opened in 1961. The degree to which an object is symmetrical is illustrated by the ...

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 see the clowns in their backstage habitat, Clown Alley, preparing for a circus performance...

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

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

A parable, photographed in live-action, about the use of eating utensils in India. Doubling as a social commentary, this film also examines the significance and status that people attach to their artifacts....

An early attempt to present communications theory, made to encourage the breaking down of barriers of thinking between disciplines and to discourage thinking of communications in a limited way. Music composed by Elmer Bernstein....

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....

Photographed through a mirror system to achieve radial kaleidoscopic images, the beginning portion of this film consists of fast-moving kaleidoscopic images of chairs, objects, and materials. In the second half, kaleidoscopic images of the Eames Offi...

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 by English inventor and mathematician, Charles Babbage. The engine, designed to calculate and print-ou...

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. The camera moves across details of paintings, as well as details of Cezanne’s studio, providing an i...