Ray Eames Movies

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 traces the design development of the Eames Sofa Compact, which folds for easy flat-pack shipping. The film, one of the first Charles and...

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

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.

Documentary short

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

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

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

A short film of the opening of the last museum exhibition prepared by the Eames. The exhibition was called "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" and...

A morality film where Sherlock Holmes solves a case using Boolean logic.

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

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

Featuring narration by Walter Cronkite.

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

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...