Ray Eames Movies

A film record of an exhibition of the late work of Paul Cezanne, organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux in Paris....

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

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

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

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

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.

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...

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

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

An excerpt from the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, which Charles delivered at Harvard University in 1970-71. Includes an evocative discussion of what...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

This film reveals design proposals for the IBM pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It incorporates photography and animation to present the...

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...

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

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