Charles Eames Movies

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...

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

The film sets forth the objectives of the planned Center, describes its architectural program, and gives a guided tour through a model of the...

To avoid making travelers walk excessive distances through a large airport, Washington, D.C.'s new airport is to use mobile departure lounges to...

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...

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

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

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 live action pageant of mechanical toys, animals, puppets, cars, lead soldiers, and dolls—all set in motion. Toy buildings and photographic or...

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

Documentary short

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

Featuring narration by Walter Cronkite.

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

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

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