Charles Eames Movies

Documentary short

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...

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

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...

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...

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

The process of manufacturing fiberglass chairs is shown through visuals only, with no narration.

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...

Charles and Ray produced this film for IBM’s pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Information Machine was the first...

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

A visually elegant study of water on a schoolyard playground.