Movies

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...

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

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

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.

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

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.

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

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...

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

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

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

This film reveals design proposals for the IBM pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It incorporates photography and animation to present the...

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

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 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 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...

But where have the women architects gone? It’s been a few centuries since women have been creating architectural works with passion and talent...

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