Movies

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

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

hese two churches, Viersehnheiligen and Ottobeuren are rich examples of mid-18th-Century German Baroque, a time when music, literature, architecture...

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

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

A promotional film for the Eames designed Polaroid Sx-70 camera.

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

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...

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.

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

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