Charles Eames Movies

An interesting look at the world of toy trains, shot from the perspective of the little world itself. Originally created for model train enthusiasts,...

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

The Eames design philosophy presented in the form of a series of questions posed by a curator at the Louvre and answered by Charles Eames.

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

A portrayal of the Mexican Day of the Dead consisting of still shots and narration. Deals with the special objects and events surrounding the annual...

A live-action film of a rare sea creature. The tiny transparent life form (only 5/8″ high) has only rarely been observed in its natural...

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

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...

Documentary short

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...

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...

An excerpt from the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, which Charles delivered at Harvard University in 1970-71. Includes an evocative discussion of what...

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

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

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

One of a series of three films on mathematics conceived and produced by the Eames Office with Ray Redheffer, professor of Mathematics at UCLA. A...

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

A film by Charles and Ray Eames