Ray Eames Movies

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

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 visually elegant study of water on a schoolyard playground.

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

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

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

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...

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

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....

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...

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

Charles and Ray produced this film for IBM’s pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Information Machine was the first...

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...

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

Documentary short

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

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

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

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

A portrayal of the Mexican Day of the Dead consisting of still shots and narration. Deals with the special objects and events surrounding the annual...