Ray Eames Movies

The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.

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....

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 rare, live-action, and close-up study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine, a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19th-Century...

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...

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...

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany...

The life and work of the astronomer Nicolas Copernicus are shown by means of images of his writings and drawings and places he was associated with.

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

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

"Based on the exhibition "Photography and the city", designed by the Eames Office for the Smithsonian Institute". A primer on the modern problems of...

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

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

A film by Charles and Ray Eames

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...

A promotional film for the Eames designed Polaroid Sx-70 camera.

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

The Eames design philosophy presented in the form of a series of questions posed by a curator at the Louvre and answered by Charles Eames.