Charles Eames Movies

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...

In 1957, Charles and Ray designed the Solar Do-Nothing Machine for Alcoa, the Aluminum Company of America. True to the Eameses’ belief that...

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

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

Produced to introduce the functions and design properties of the Eames Contract Storage units. This innovative use of live-action and animation...

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...

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

Featuring narration by Walter Cronkite.

Animated graphic symbols presented in a constant time frame are used to diagram and explain the laws of planetary motion devised by the...

With a cast consisting exclusively of toys, a Japanese windup boy carrying a suitcase has a series of encounters with other windup toys. Large...

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

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

Created with imagery taken from the 19th-Century Japanese woodcuts on display in the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “The Japanese...

Photographed through a mirror system to achieve radial kaleidoscopic images, the beginning portion of this film consists of fast-moving kaleidoscopic...

A parable, photographed in live-action, about the use of eating utensils in India. Doubling as a social commentary, this film also examines the...