Charles Eames Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Documentary short

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

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

Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM...

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 visually elegant study of water on a schoolyard playground.

With a cast consisting exclusively of toys, a Japanese windup boy carrying a suitcase has a series of encounters with other windup toys. Large...

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