Charles Eames Movies

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.

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

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 film by Charles and Ray 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...

The lives of Franklin and Jefferson are used as prisms through which to evoke colonial America. With a dynamic timeline and a wealth of images drawn...

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

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

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...

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

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

The movie "Clown Face" offers a very rare glimpse into the backstage private world of Circus Clowns. Here, you can look behind the curtain. You will...

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.

Featuring narration by Walter Cronkite.

Lucia Eames chases a little boy after he steals her diary. It is one of 6 shorts made to display the use of Polavision.

Documentary short