Charles Eames Movies

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

Interviews with the junior designers swept into the 24-7 world of "The Eamery" are the heart of this complex picture of a husband-and-wife creative...

A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of...

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

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...

A visually elegant study of water on a schoolyard playground.

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

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.

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

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

The concept of a mathematical function is illustrated as used in science.

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

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

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...

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

Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane...

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...

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...

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.

Created as a demonstration of multi-disciplinary thinking, this film was produced in association with UCLA Mathematics professor, Ray Redheffer. With...