Charles Eames is associated with: Solar Do-Nothing Machine
In 1957, Charles and Ray designed the Solar Do-Nothing Machine for Alcoa, the Aluminum Company of America. True to the Eameses' belief that toys are not as innocent as they appear, the machine was one of the first uses of solar power to produce electricit ...
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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 intimag ...
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Lucia Eames chases a little boy after he steals her diary. It is one of 6 shorts made to display the use of Polavision. ...
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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 one before. Starting from a view of the entire known universe, the camera gradually zooms in until we a ...
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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 the years – eight to a second – as the boundaries on the animated map change, showing both the growth i ...
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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 was to celebrate the bicentennial of the American Revolution. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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This film was produced to present the Eames proposal to make an American Revolution Bicentennial celebration. The exhibition would compare and contrast the lives of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, providing a cinematic trip for the viewer through t ...
Watch NowCreated as a demonstration of multi-disciplinary thinking, this film was produced in association with UCLA Mathematics professor, Ray Redheffer. With the exclusive use of storytelling through animation this lively and exuberant presentation of the "archite ...
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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. ...
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Based on an existing slide show the Eames Office had made about the exhibition, A Computer Perspective (produced for IBM in 1971). The film is a visual survey of the collection of artifacts, ideas, events and memorabilia displayed in the exhibition to rep ...
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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 stop-motion animation film, it begins with an algebraic expression, elaborates on it, and then reduces it to it ...
Watch NowA 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. ...
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The movie "Clown Face" offers a very rare glimpse into the backstage private world of Circus Clowns. Here, you can look behind the curtain. ...
Watch NowAn excerpt from the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, which Charles delivered at Harvard University in 1970-71. Includes an evocative discussion of what Charles called "The New Covetables" (knowledge not things), illustrated with a rich array of photographs. ...
Watch NowThe process of manufacturing fiberglass chairs is shown through visuals only, with no narration. ...
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Created with imagery taken from the 19th-Century Japanese woodcuts on display in the Smithsonian Institution's exhibition "The Japanese Expedition 1852-1866 of Commodore Matthew Perry," the film records the opening of the country to Western trade from a Ja ...
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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 habitat. The remarkable Eames macro-photography provides an intimate view of the animal and demonstrates the creature' ...
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"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. ...
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From hardware to software, the basics of then-current computing technology is explained. ...
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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 atom. With images, narration, and a dashboard, it gives a clue to the relative size of things and what it mean ...
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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-out tabl ...
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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: to ...
Watch NowA morality film where Sherlock Holmes solves a case using Boolean logic. ...
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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 concepts, architecture, and overall look of the pavilion and to convey an impression of the exhibition's spi ...
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A multi-screen presentation at the Ovoid Theater of the IBM Pavilion of the New York World's Fair. ...
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The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth. ...
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Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane into an inside and an outside. ...
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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 number ...
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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 and ...
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The concept of a mathematical function is illustrated as used in science. ...
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The Fabulous Fifties, CBS, combines style, humor, and imagination. It was rich in touches of quality showmanship and equally rich in the memories of a decade which it revived. In recognition, the Peabody Television Award for entertainment is presented to T ...
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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 control mechanisms and social situations. ...
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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 Office dis ...
Watch NowA seven-screen presentation for the American pavilion at the Moscow World's Fair. ...
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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 short film transcends it's intended audience to delight viewers of all ages and interests! ...
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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 Mexican celebration of "All Souls Day". It is not only a rich flood of folk art, but a view of the way tha ...
Watch NowCharles and Ray produced this film for IBM's pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. The Information Machine was the first completely animated project produced by the Eames Office. Intended as an introduction to the electronic computer, the film depi ...
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This film was made by the Eamses on a weeks notice for a local Los Angeles TV show where jazz musicians improvised to the images live. The music that overlays the released edition is specifically recorded for that edition. ...
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Stop-motion animation depicts a man assembling an Eames lounge chair, sitting down to relax in it, and then disassembling it for shipment. ...
Watch Nowhese two churches, Viersehnheiligen and Ottobeuren are rich examples of mid-18th-Century German Baroque, a time when music, literature, architecture and philosophy were unified. The film, rather than explaining the structure, attempts to express the feelin ...
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The Eames House and Studio is explored via a series of slides. ...
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This film traces the design development of the Eames Sofa Compact, which folds for easy flat-pack shipping. The film, one of the first Charles and Ray made for Herman Miller, starts in a rail yard, where we discover that volume is more expensive than weigh ...
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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. ...
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Presented without voiceover, various kinds of breads are displayed and broken in a joyous celebration of starch, seed and salt. ...
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A live action pageant of mechanical toys, animals, puppets, cars, lead soldiers, and dolls—all set in motion. Toy buildings and photographic or painted images of city streets serve as backdrops. Festive elements from circuses, carnivals, and holiday para ...
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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 team that define the era of Mid-Century Modernism. Narrated by James Franco, the film draws from a trove of ...
Watch NowThe Eames design philosophy presented in the form of a series of questions posed by a curator at the Louvre and answered by Charles Eames. ...
Watch NowAn interesting look at the world of toy trains, shot from the perspective of the little world itself. Originally created for model train enthusiasts, this short film transcends it's intended audience to delight viewers of all ages and interests! ...
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