Charles Eames Movies

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

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

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...

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

Featuring narration by Walter Cronkite.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A visually elegant study of water on a schoolyard playground.